زانو

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian زانو (zânu, “knee”).

Noun

زانو • (zanu)

1. knee, the joint between the thigh and the shank

   Synonyms: دیز (diz), ركبه (rükbe)

Descendants

• Turkish: zanu

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “zanu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5434
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بادم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 638
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Genu”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 646
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “زانو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2419
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زانو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1002

Persian

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *jā́nu, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ā́nu, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu. Cognate with Ancient Greek γόνυ (gónu), Latin genū, English knee.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [zɑː.ˈnuː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [zɑː.núː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [zɑː.núː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [zɑː.núː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [zɔː.nú]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [zɒː.núː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [zɔ.nú]

Readings
Classical reading?	zānū
Dari reading?	zānū
Iranian reading?	zânu
Tajik reading?	zonu

Noun

Dari	زانو
Iranian Persian
Tajik	зону

زانو • (zânu) (plural زانوها (zânu-hâ))

1. (anatomy) knee

Further reading

• زانو on the Persian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fa