صحنه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Coined by Ottoman dictionarian Sami Frashëri in 1870 as a phono-semantic matching of French scène (from Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “scene”)), using صحن (sahn) +‎ ـه (-e), the first part being derived from Arabic صَحْن (ṣaḥn).

Noun

صحنه • (sahne) (definite accusative صحنه‌یی (sahneyi), plural صحنه‌لر (sahneler))

1. scene

Descendants

• Turkish: sahne
• → Azerbaijani: səhnə
• → Bashkir: сәхнә (səxnə)
• → Kazakh: сахна (saxna)
• → Kyrgyz: сахна (sahna)
• → Persian: صحنه (sahne)
  • Tajik: саҳна (sahna)
  • → Pashto: صحنه (sahná)
• → Tatar: сәхнә (säxnä)
• → Turkmen: sahna
• → Uyghur: سەھنە (sehne)
• → Uzbek: sahna

References

• Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “صحنه”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 819

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish صحنه (sahne, “scene”), from Arabic صَحْن (ṣaḥn, “yard, field”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [sah.ˈna]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säɦ.nǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säɦ.nǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [sɑː.nǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [sɔː.nǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sæɦ.né]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [säɦ.nǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	sahna
Dari reading?	sahna
Iranian reading?	sahne
Tajik reading?	sahna

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Noun

Dari	صحنه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	саҳна

صحنه • (sahne)

1. (film, theater) scene
2. (theater) stage