# زین
## Central Kurdish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ziːn/

### Noun

| Northern Kurdish | zîn |
زین (zîn)
* saddle

#### Derived terms

* زیندروو (zîndirû)
* زینپۆش (zînpoş)

### References

* Hejar (1990) “زین”, in Henbane borîne‎, Tehran: Soroush, page 394
* Wahby, T., Edmonds, C. J. (1966) “zîn”, in A Kurdish-English Dictionary, page 167

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian زین (zin, “saddle”), itself from Middle Persian [script needed] (zyn' /⁠zēn⁠/, “saddle”).

### Noun

زین • (zin)
* saddle, a seat for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal
    Synonyms: ایر (eyer), سرج (serc)

#### Derived terms

* زین افزار (zin efzar, “saddle-gear”)
* زینساز (zinsaz, “saddler”)
* زینكوهه (zinkühe, “cantle of a saddle”)
* زینپوش (zinpuş, “saddle-cloth”)
* زینگر (zinger, “saddler”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: zin

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “zin2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5486
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “zîn”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1429
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “زین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 654
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ephippium”, 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 469
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “زین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2502
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1023

## Persian
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (zyn' /⁠zēn⁠/, “saddle”), originally meaning something to make ready or fitted, armament, harness, Old Armenian զէն (zēn).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ziːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ziːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ziːn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ziːn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [zin]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ziːn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [zin]

### Noun

زین • (zin)
* saddle

#### Descendants

* → Assamese: জিন (zin)
* → Middle Bengali: জীন (jin)
** Bengali: জিন (jin)
* → Gujarati: જીન (jīn)
* → Old Hindi: जीन (jīna)
** Hindustani: zīn
    Hindi: ज़ीन
    Urdu: زِین (zīn)
* → Indonesian: jin
* → Kannada: ಜೀನು (jīnu)
* → Maithili: jīn
    Devanagari script: जीन
    Tirhuta script: 𑒖𑒲𑒢
* → Malayalam: ജീനി (jīni)
* → Marathi: जीन (jīn)
* → Marwari:
    Devanagari script: जीण (jīṇ)
    Mahajani script: 𑅛𑅑𑅢 (jiṇ)
* → Odia: ଜିନ (jina)
* → Ottoman Turkish: زین (zin)
** Turkish: zin
* → Old Punjabi: ਜੀਨੁ (jīnu)
** Punjabi: zīn
    Gurmukhi script: ਜ਼ੀਨ
    Shahmukhi script: زِین
* → Sindhi:
    Arabic script: زيِنَ
    Devanagari script: ज़ीन
    Khudabadi script: 𑋂𑋩𑋢𑋑 (zīna)
* → Tamil: சேணம் (cēṇam)

### Etymology 2

Metrical contraction used for poetry.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [zin]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [zɪn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [zɪn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [zɪn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [zin]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [zen]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [zin]

#### Phrase

زین • (zin)
* (poetic) Alternative form of از این (az in, “'from this'”)

### References

* Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 323
* MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “²zēn”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 99
* Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “زین”, 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, page 172