# یاد
## Khalaj
### Noun

یاد (yâd) (definite accusative یادؽ, plural یادلار)
* Arabic spelling of yâd (“memory”)

#### Declension
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Common Turkic *yāt (“alien, foreign, unfamiliar”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jad/

#### Adjective

یاد • (yad)
* foreign, unfamiliar

##### Descendants

* Turkish: yad

### Etymology 2

From Persian یاد (yâd, “memory”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jaːd/

#### Noun

یاد • (yâd)
* remembrance

##### Descendants

* Turkish: yâd

## Persian
### Etymology

From Middle Persian [Term?] (/⁠ayād⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *Habí- + *yáH- (probably from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂- (“to go; to go in, to enter”), with Iranian semantic shift "to enter [the mind]" > "to remember"). Compare Tocharian A [Term?] (opyāc, “in remembrance”), probably borrowed from an Eastern Iranian language.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [jɑːð]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [jɑːd̪]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [jɑːd̪]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [jɑːd̪]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [jɔːd̪̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [jɒːd̪̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [jɔd̪]

### Noun

یاد • (yâd)
* memory
    Synonyms: حافظه (hâfeze), خاطر (xâter)
** c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 11”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎:گو نام ما ز یاد به عمداً چه می‌بری خود آید آن که یاد نیاری ز نام ماgū nām-i mā zi yād ba amdan či mē-barī xwad āyad ān ki yād nay-ārī zi nām-i māSay, why do you purposely forget my name? The [time] shall come by itself that you do not remember my name.(Classical Persian transliteration)

#### Related terms

* از یاد بردن (az yâd bordan, “to forget; to cause to forget”, literally “to take away from memory”)
* از یاد رفتن (az yâd raftan, “to be forgotten”, literally “to go from memory”)
* به یاد آوردن (be yâd âvordan, “to recall; to remind”, literally “to bring to memory”)
* به یاد افتادن (be yâd oftâdan, “to remember”, literally “to fall to memory”)
* به یاد انداختن (be yâd andâxtan, “to remind”, literally “to throw to memory”)
* به یاد داشتن (be yâd dâštan, “to remember”, literally “to have in memory”)
* به یاد سپردن (be yâd sepordan, “to memorize”, literally “to entrust to memory”)
* به یاد ماندن (be yâd mândan, “to be remembered; to have in memory”, literally “to stay in memory”)
* یاد دادن (yâd dâdan, “to teach”, literally “to give memory”)
* یاد داشتن (yâd dâštan, “to remember; (Afghanistan) to know how to”, literally “to have in memory”)
* یاد رفتن (yâd raftan, “to be forgotten”, literally “to go from memory”)
* یاد کردن (yâd kardan, “to mention; to reminesce”, literally “to make memory”)
* یاد گرفتن (yâd gereftan, “to learn”, literally “to take memory”)
* یادداشت (yâd-dâšt, “memo”)
* یادش بخیر (yâd-eš bexeyr)
* یادگار (yâdgâr, “keepsake; remembrance”)
* یادگیری (yâd-giri, “learning”)

#### Descendants

* → Assamese: ইয়াদ (iad)
* → Azerbaijani: yad
* → Baluchi: یات (yát)
* → Bengali: ইয়াদ (iẏad)
* → Chagatai: یاد (yād)
    Uyghur: ياد (yad)
    Uzbek: yod
* → Gujarati: યાદી (yādī), યાદ (yād)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: याद (yād)
    Urdu: یاد (yād)
* → Kannada: ಯಾದಿ (yādi)
* → Kazakh: жад (jad)
* → Khalaj: yâd
* → Maithili: iād, iādi
    Devanagari script: इआद, इआदि
    Tirhuta script: 𑒃𑒂𑒠, 𑒃𑒂𑒠𑒱
* → Marathi: यादी (yādī)
* → Marwari: याद (yād)
* → Old Punjabi: ਯਾਦਿ (yādi)
** Punjabi: yād
    Gurmukhi script: ਯਾਦ
    Shahmukhi script: یاد
* → Ottoman Turkish: یاد (yâd)
** Turkish: yâd
* → Pashto: ياد (yād)
* → Sindhi: yādi
    Arabic script: يادِ
    Devanagari script: यादि

### Further reading

* Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “یاد”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎ (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, pages 1499a–1500b
* MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “ayād”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 15
* Cheung, Johnny (2007) “*HiaH”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 175

## Punjabi
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian یَاد (yād).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Punjabi) IPA: /jäːd̪ᵊ/

### Noun

یَاد • (yād) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਯਾਦ)
* memory (ie. recall, recollection of a past event)
* memory, honour
* (by extension) nostalgia

#### Declension
### Further reading

* Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “یاد”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
* Bashir, Kanwal (2012) “یاد”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Hyattsville, MD: Dunwoody Press
* “ਯਾਦ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025

## Urdu
### Etymology

From Classical Persian یاد (yād).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /jɑːd̪/
* Audio (Pakistan):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑːd̪

### Noun

یاد • (yād) f (Hindi spelling याद)
* memory
* recollection
* reminiscence

#### Derived terms

* یاد کَرْنا (yād karnā, “to recall”)
* یاد آنا (yād ānā, “to remember”)
* یاد دِلانا (yād dilānā, “to remind”)
* یاد رَکْھنا (yād rakhnā, “to bear in mind”)

## Ushojo
### Etymology

From Urdu یاد (yād).

### Noun

یاد (yād)
* remembrance, remember