# مردانه
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Persian مردانه (mardâne, “manly, masculine”).

#### Adjective

مردانه • (merdane)
* masculine, manly, male, of or pertaining to the male gender
    Synonyms: ذكر (zeker), نر (ner)
* manly, virile, having characteristics associated with being male
    Synonym: ذكر (zeker)

##### Derived terms

* مردانه‌لك (merdanelik, “bravery, courage”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: merdane
* → Armenian: մէրտանէ (mērtanē)

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Persian وردانه (vardâne, “rolling pin”), on which see Armenian գրտնակ (grtnak).

#### Noun

مردانه • (merdane)
* roller, cylinder, any rotating device that is part of a machine
* rolling pin, any cylindrical kitchen tool used to flatten dough
    Synonyms: اوقلاغی (oklağı), مرقاق (mirkak)
* rolling press, a press used for rolling or calendering cloth
* club, any stick-like plaything used in athletic exercises

##### Descendants

* Turkish: merdane, merdene
* → Armenian: մէրտէնէ (mērtēnē)
* → Bulgarian: мердене́ (merdené)
* → Romanian: merdenea

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “merdane1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3149
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “merdâne”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 740
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مردانه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1148
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Virilis”, 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 1769
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مردانه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 4567
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مردانه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1808
* Tietze, Andreas (1982) “Die Zusammensetzung des gewerblichen Wortschatzes in der Provinz Kars”, in Zeitschrift für Balkanologie‎ (in German), volume 18, number 2, § 191, page 186 of 159–215

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* مردونه (mardune) (colloquial Tehrani)

### Etymology

From مرد (mard) +‎ ـانه (-âne).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [maɾ.dɑː.ˈna]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mäɾ.d̪ɑː.nǽ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mäɾ.d̪ɑː.nǽ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [mäɾ.d̪ɑː.nǽ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [mäɾ.d̪ɔː.nǽ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [mæɹ.d̪ɒː.né]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [mäɾ.d̪ɔ.nǽ]

### Adjective

مردانه • (mardâne) (comparative مردانه‌تَر (mardâne-tar), superlative مردانه‌تَرین (mardâne-tarin))
| Dari | مردانه |
| Iranian Persian | مردانه |
| Tajik | мардона |
* manly
    این کیکاوس سپاه سالاری بود نام او رستم بن دستان و این رستم مردی بود که از جهان از او مردانه تر نبود
       ēn Kay Kāvus sepāh sālārē būd nām ī ōy Rostam bin Dastān o ēn Rostam mardē būd ke az jahān az ōy mardāneh tar na būd
          Kay Kavus had an army commander by the name of Rostam son of Dastān and no man in the world was manlier than him.
* masculine

#### Inflection

Enclitic-attached forms of مردانه (mardâne) :

#### Derived terms

* مردانگی (mardânegi)

#### Related terms

* مرد (mard)
* مردی (mardi)

#### Descendants

* → Gujarati: મરદાના (mardānā), મર્દાના (mardānā)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: मर्दाना (mardānā)
    Urdu: مردانہ (mardāna)
** → English: mardana
* → Ottoman Turkish: مردانه (merdane)
* → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਮਰਦਾਨਾ (mardānā)
    Shahmukhi script: مردانہ (mardānah)