ذهن

See also: ذہن, دھن, and دهن

Arabic

Root
ذ ه ن (ḏ-h-n)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ðihn/

Noun

ذِهْن • (ḏihn) m (plural أَذْهَان (ʔaḏhān))

1. mind
   • Al-Mutanabbi

     وَلَيْسَ يَصِحُّ فِي الْأَذْهَانِ شَيْءٌ / إِذَا ٱحْتَاجَ النَّهَارُ إِلَى دَلِيلِ

     walaysa yaṣiḥḥu fī l-ʾaḏhāni šayʾun / ʾiḏā ḥtāja n-nahāru ʾilā dalīli

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. intellect

Declension

Declension of noun ذِهْن (ḏihn)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	ذِهْن ḏihn	الذِّهْن aḏ-ḏihn	ذِهْن ḏihn
Nominative	ذِهْنٌ ḏihnun	الذِّهْنُ aḏ-ḏihnu	ذِهْنُ ḏihnu
Accusative	ذِهْنًا ḏihnan	الذِّهْنَ aḏ-ḏihna	ذِهْنَ ḏihna
Genitive	ذِهْنٍ ḏihnin	الذِّهْنِ aḏ-ḏihni	ذِهْنِ ḏihni
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	ذِهْنَيْن ḏihnayn	الذِّهْنَيْن aḏ-ḏihnayn	ذِهْنَيْ ḏihnay
Nominative	ذِهْنَانِ ḏihnāni	الذِّهْنَانِ aḏ-ḏihnāni	ذِهْنَا ḏihnā
Accusative	ذِهْنَيْنِ ḏihnayni	الذِّهْنَيْنِ aḏ-ḏihnayni	ذِهْنَيْ ḏihnay
Genitive	ذِهْنَيْنِ ḏihnayni	الذِّهْنَيْنِ aḏ-ḏihnayni	ذِهْنَيْ ḏihnay
Plural	basic broken plural triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	أَذْهَان ʔaḏhān	الْأَذْهَان al-ʔaḏhān	أَذْهَان ʔaḏhān
Nominative	أَذْهَانٌ ʔaḏhānun	الْأَذْهَانُ al-ʔaḏhānu	أَذْهَانُ ʔaḏhānu
Accusative	أَذْهَانًا ʔaḏhānan	الْأَذْهَانَ al-ʔaḏhāna	أَذْهَانَ ʔaḏhāna
Genitive	أَذْهَانٍ ʔaḏhānin	الْأَذْهَانِ al-ʔaḏhāni	أَذْهَانِ ʔaḏhāni

Descendants

• Maltese: dehen
• → Azerbaijani: zehin
• → Bashkir: зиһен (zihen)
• → Kazakh: зейін (zeiın)
• → Persian: ذهن (zehn)
  • → Uyghur: زېھىن (zëhin)
  • → Uzbek: zehn
  • → Hindi: ज़ेहन (zehan)
  • → Urdu: ذہن
    • → Kohistani Shina: ذہن
• → Ottoman Turkish: ذهن (zihn)
  • → Turkish: zihin
  • → Crimean Tatar: zein
• → Tatar: зиһен (zihen)

References

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ذهن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ذِهْن (ḏihn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ðihn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ze̞ɦn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ze̞ɦn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [zɪn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [zin]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [zeɦn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [zeɦn]

Readings
Classical reading?	ḏihn
Dari reading?	zehn
Iranian reading?	zehn
Tajik reading?	zehn

Dari	ذهن
Iranian Persian
Tajik	зеҳн

Noun

ذهن • (zehn)

1. mind, intellect
   • c. 1120, Sanā'ī Ghaznawī, “Tarkīb-band in praise of Ērānshāh”, in دیوان فرخی سنایی [Dīvān of Sanā'i]‎^[1]:

     آفتاب اندر فلک شاگرد ذهن و رای تست
     مشتری در حسرترخسارهٔ چون ماه تست

     āftāb andar falak šāgird-i ḏihn u rāy-i tu-st
     muštarī dar hasrat-i ruxsāra-yi čūn māh-i tu-st

     The sun in the sky is the [mere] disciple of your intellect and thought;
     [The planet] Jupiter is yearning for your cheeks [which are beautiful] like the Moon.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Related terms

• ذهنی (zehni)
• ذهین (zehin)

 

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “ذهن”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “ذهن”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press