# وطن
## Arabic
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wa.tˤan/
* Audio:(file)

#### Noun

وَطَن • (waṭan) m (plural أَوْطَان (ʔawṭān))
* nation
* home, homeland, country, fatherland

##### Derived terms

* وَطَنِيّ (waṭaniyy)

##### Descendants

* → Armenian: վաթան (vatʻan)
* → Azerbaijani: vətən
* → Classical Persian: وَطَن (watan)
** Tajik: ватан (vatan)
** → Bashkir: ватан (vatan)
** → Bengali: ওয়াতন (ōẇaton)
** → Hindustani:
    Hindi: वतन (vatan)
    Urdu: وَطَن (vatan)
** → Kazakh: отан (otan)
** → Tatar: ватан (watan)
** → Turkmen: watan
** → Uyghur: ۋەتەن (weten)
** → Uzbek: vatan
* → Northern Kurdish: weten
* → Ottoman Turkish: وطن (vatan)
** Turkish: vatan
** → Albanian: vatan
** → Crimean Tatar: vatan

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wa.tˤa.na/

#### Verb

وَطَنَ • (waṭana) I (non-past يَطِنُ (yaṭinu), verbal noun وَطْن (waṭn))
* to dwell, reside, stay
* to live in (بِ (bi))

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /watˤ.tˤa.na/

#### Verb

وَطَّنَ • (waṭṭana) II (non-past يُوَطِّنُ (yuwaṭṭinu), verbal noun تَوْطِين (tawṭīn))
* to choose for residence; to settle down, get settled, take up residence
* to get used to, adjust oneself to, reconcile oneself to; to put up with (نَفْسَهُ عَلَى (nafsahu ʕalā))
* to prepare oneself mentally for, to make up one's mind to (نَفْسَهُ عَلَى (nafsahu ʕalā))

##### Conjugation
## Kyrgyz
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian وَطَن (watan).

### Noun

وطن • (vatan)
* homeland

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَطَن (waṭan).

### Noun

وطن • (vatan) (definite accusative وطنی (vatanı), plural اوطان (evtan))
* homeland, fatherland, motherland, the country that one regards as home

#### Derived terms

* وطن اصلی (vatan aslı, “country of origin”)
* وطن شرقیسی (vatan şarkısı, “national anthem”)
* وطنداش (vatandaş, “compatriot”)
* وطنپرور (vatanperver, “patriotic”)
* وطنی (vatanî, “pertaining to one's homeland”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: vatan
* → Albanian: vatan
* → Crimean Tatar: vatan

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “vatan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5096
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “vatan”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1369
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “وطن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1311
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Patria”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1252
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “وطن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 5387
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “vatan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “وطن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2141

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَطَن (waṭan).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [wa.ˈtan]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [wä.t̪ʰǽn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [wä.t̪ʰǽn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [wä.t̪ʰǽn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [wä.t̪ʰǽn]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [væ.t̪ʰǽn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [vä.t̪ʰǽn]

### Noun

وطن • (vatan)
* homeland, home country
* motherland, fatherland, mother country

#### Synonyms

* میهن (mihan)

#### Derived terms

* وطنی (vatani)
* وطن‌پرست (vatan-parast)
* وطن‌پرستی (vatan-parasti)
* وطن‌فروش (vatan-foruš)
* وطن‌فروشی (vatan-foruši)
* هموطن (ham-vatan)

#### Descendants

* Tajik: ватан (vatan)
* → Bashkir: ватан (vatan)
* → Bengali: ওয়াতন (ōẇaton)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: वतन (vatan)
    Urdu: وَطَن (vatan)
* → Kazakh: отан (otan)
* → Tatar: ватан (watan)
* → Turkmen: watan
* → Uyghur: ۋەتەن (weten)
* → Uzbek: vatan

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Arabic وَطَّنَ (waṭṭana).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /watˤ.tˤan/, [ˈwɑtˤ.tˤɑn]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

#### Verb

وطّن • (waṭṭan) II (present بوطّن (biwaṭṭen))
* (transitive) to settle
* to localize

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

From Arabic وَطَن (waṭan).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wa.tˤan/, [ˈwɑ.tˤɑn]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

#### Noun

وطن • (waṭan) m (plural أوطان (ʔawṭān))
* homeland, native land

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian وَطَن (watan).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /ʋə.t̪ən/

### Noun

وَطَن • (vatan) m (Hindi spelling वतन)
* nation, country
* homeland, motherland, fatherland
** 1904, Muhammad Iqbal, Tarānā-e-Hind :مذہب نہیں سکھاتا آپس میں بیر رکھنا ہندی ہیں ہم وطن ہے ہندوستاں ہماراmazhab nahī̃ sikhātā, āpas mẽ bair rakhnā hindī ha͠i ham, vatan ha͠i, hindostā̃ hamārāReligion does not preach animosity among ourselves. We are Hindi and our homeland is Hindustan.

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “وطن”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
* Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “وطن”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 663