شمعدان

From Persian شمعدان (šam'dân).

• IPA^(key): /ʃamʕaˈdaːn/

شمعدان • (šamʿadān) f (plural شمعدانات (šamʿadānāt))

1. candlestick

• شمعة

• շէմ՚տան (şemʼdan), շամտան (şamdan) — Armeno-Turkish

Borrowed from Persian شمعدان (šam'dân, “candlestick”), a compound of شمع (šam', “candle”) + ـدان (-dân, “holder”).

شمعدان • (şemʼdan)

1. candlestick, candle holder, a holder with a socket or spike for a candle

• Turkish: şamdan
• → Albanian: shandan
• → Armenian: շամտան (šamtan), շամդան (šamdan)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şamdan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4425
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “شمعدان”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 290b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شمعدان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 734
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Candelabrum”, 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 141
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شمعدان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2862
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “şamdan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شمعدان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1137

شمع (šam', “wax, candle”) +‎ ـدان (-dân, “holder”)

شمعدان • (šam'dân)

1. candlestick
   • Bible, 2 Chronicles 4:7 :

     و ده‌ شمعدان‌ طلا موافق‌ قانون‌ آنها ساخته‌، پنج‌ را به‌ طرف‌ راست‌ و پنج‌ را به‌ طرف‌ چپ‌ در هیکل‌ گذاشت

     And (he) built 10 golden candlesticks according to the prescribed method and placed 5 to the right, 5 to the left of the temple

2. menorah

• → Hijazi Arabic: شَمْعَدَان (šamʕadān)
• → Gujarati: શામદાન (śāmdān)
• → Ottoman Turkish: شمعدان (şemʼdan), շէմ՚տան (şemʼdan), շամտան (şamdan)
  • Turkish: şamdan
  • → Albanian: shandan
  • → Armenian: շամտան (šamtan), շամդան (šamdan)
• → South Levantine Arabic: شمعدان (šamʕadān)
• → Urdu: شمع دان (śama-dān)

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “شمعدان”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

From Persian شمعدان (šam'dân).

• IPA^(key): /ʃam.ʕa.daːn/, [ʃam.ʕaˈdæːn]

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شمعدان • (šamʕadān) m (plural شمعدانات (šamʕadānāt))

1. candlestick, candleholder

• شمعة (šamʕa, “candle”)
• شمع (šamʕ, “wax”)