# زنجیر
## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* զինճիր (zincir) — Armeno-Turkish

### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian زنجیر (zanjir, “chain”).

### Noun

زنجیر • (zincir)
* chain, a series of interconnected rings or links
    Synonym: سلسله (silsile)
* fetter, a chain used to bind the legs of a person
    Synonym: بوقاغی (bukağı)

#### Derived terms

* زنجیر چكمك (zincir çekmek, “to draw or carry a chain”)
* زنجیربند (zincirbend, “chained, fettered”)
* زنجیرجی (zincirci, “maker or seller of chains”)
* زنجیرخانه (zincirhane, “chain manufactory”)
* زنجیرك (zincirek, “small chain”)
* زنجیرلتمك (zincirletmek, “to make or let be chained”)
* زنجیرلمك (zincirlemek, “to chain”)
* زنجیرلنمك (zincirlenmek, “to be chained”)
* زنجیرلو (zincirli, “furnished with chains”)
* زنجیره (zincire, “chain-pattern”)
* زنجیری (zinciri, “pertaining to a chain”)
* زنجیری قوپارمق (zinciri koparmak, “to go mad, become insane”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: zincir, zencil
* → Albanian: zinxhir
* → Armenian: զնջիլ (znǰil), զնճիլ (znčil), ջինջիլ (ǰinǰil), ջնջիլ (ǰnǰil)
* → Aromanian: singir
* → Bulgarian: синджи́р (sindžír)
* → Egyptian Arabic: جنزير (ganzīr)
* → Georgian: ჯინჯილი (ǯinǯili) — Meskheti, Kiziqi
* → Laz: ზენჯილი (zencili)
* → Macedonian: синџир (sindžir)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: сѝнџӣр, сѝнжӣр
    Latin script: sìndžīr, sìnžīr

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “zincir”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5487
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “زنجیر”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 258a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “زنجیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 648
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Catena”, 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 161
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “زنجیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2472
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “zincir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زنجیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1015

## Persian
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [zin.d͡ʒiːɾ], [zan.d͡ʒiːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [zɪn.d͡ʒiːɾ], [zän.d͡ʒiːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [zɪn.d͡ʒiːɾ], [zän.d͡ʒiːɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [zɪn.d͡ʒiːɾ], [zän.d͡ʒiːɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [zin.d͡ʒiɾ], [zän.d͡ʒiɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [zen.d͡ʒiːɹ], [zæn.d͡ʒiːɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [zin.d͡ʒiɾ], [zän.d͡ʒiɾ]

### Noun

زنجیر • (zanjir)
* chain
** c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3159:یاد دادش جور اخوان و حسد / گفت کان زنجیر بود و ما اسدyâd dâd-aš jawr-i-axwân u hasad / guft k-ân zanjîr bûd u mâ asadHe spoke to him (Joseph) of the injustice and envy of his brethren: Joseph said, “That was (like) a chain, and I was the lion.

#### Derived terms

* زنجیر زدن (zanjir zadan)
* زنجیرزنی (zanjir-zani)

#### Descendants

* Tajik: занҷир (zanjir)
* → Azerbaijani: zəncir
** → Georgian: ჟინჟირ (žinžir) — Ingilo
* → Bashkir: сынйыр (sınyır)
* → Central Kurdish: زنجیر (zincîr)
* → Georgian: ზანჯირე (zanǯire) — Fereydan
* → Gujarati: જંજીર (jañjīr)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: ज़ंजीर (zañjīr)
    Urdu: زنجیر (zanjīr)
* → Kalmyk: шинҗүр (şinjür)
* → Kazakh: шынжыр (şynjyr)
* → Kyrgyz: чынжыр (cınjır)
* → Ottoman Turkish: زنجیر (zincîr), զինճիր (zincir) — Armeno-Turkish
** Turkish: zincir, zencil
** → Albanian: zinxhir
** → Armenian: զնջիլ (znǰil), զնճիլ (znčil), ջինջիլ (ǰinǰil), ջնջիլ (ǰnǰil)
** → Aromanian: singir
** → Bulgarian: синджи́р (sindžír)
** → Egyptian Arabic: جنزير (ganzīr)
** → Georgian: ჯინჯილი (ǯinǯili) — Meskheti, Kiziqi
** → Laz: ზენჯილი (zencili)
** → Macedonian: синџир (sindžir)
** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: сѝнџӣр, сѝнжӣр
    Latin script: sìndžīr, sìnžīr
* → Tatar: чылбыр (çılbır)
* → Turkmen: zynjyr
* → Uyghur: زەنجىر (zenjir)
* → Uzbek: zanjir

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian زنجیر (zanjir).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /zən.d͡ʒiːɾ/
* Rhymes: -iːɾ

### Noun

زَنْجِیر • (zanjīr) f (Hindi spelling ज़ंजीर)
* chain, shackle

#### Declension
### References

* “زنجیر”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “زنجیر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.