وجدان

See also: وحدان

Arabic

Root
و ج د (w-j-d)

Etymology

From the verb وَجَدَ (wajada), to experience.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wid͡ʒ.daːn/

Noun

وِجْدَان • (wijdān) m

  1. passionate excitement, ecstasy
  2. emotional life, psychic forces
  3. feeling, emotion, sentiment, consciousness, compassion, affection
  4. conscience, soul, volition

Declension

Descendants

  • → Azerbaijani: vicdan
  • → Bashkir: выждан (vıjdan)
  • → Crimean Tatar: vicdan
  • → Karakalpak: hújdan
  • → Kazakh: ождан (ojdan)
  • → Nogai: виcдан (vicdan)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: وجدان (vicdan)
    • Turkish: vicdan
    • → Armenian: վիժտան (vižtan)
  • → Pashto: وجدان
  • → Persian: وجدان (vojdân, vejdân)
  • → Tajik: виҷдон (vijdon)
  • → Talysh: vicdon
  • → Tatar: вөҗдан (wöcdan)
  • → Turkmen: wyždan
  • → Uyghur: ۋىجدان (wijdan)
  • → Uzbek: vijdon
  • → Zazaki: wijdan

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وِجْدَان (wijdān, “ecstasy; conscience”).

Noun

وجدان • (vicdan)

  1. ecstasy, rapture, an intense pleasure or state of emotion
    Synonym: وجد (vecd)
  2. conscience, the ethical or moral sense of right and wrong
    Synonym: ضمیر (zamir)

Derived terms

  • وجدانسز (vicdansız, “conscienceless”)
  • وجدانلی (vicdanlı, “conscientious”)
  • وجدانی (vicdanî, “pertaining to conscience”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: vicdan
  • → Armenian: վիժտան (vižtan)

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic وِجْدَان (wijdān).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [wʊd͡ʒ.d̪ɑ́ːn], [wɪd͡ʒ.d̪ɑ́ːn]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [wʊd͡ʒ.d̪ɑ́ːn], [wɪd͡ʒ.d̪ɑ́ːn]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [wud͡ʒ.d̪ɔ́ːn], [wid͡ʒ.d̪ɔ́ːn]
  • (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [vod͡ʒ.d̪ɒ́ːn], [ved͡ʒ.d̪ɒ́ːn]

Readings
Classical reading? wujdān, wijdān
Dari reading? wujdān, wijdān
Iranian reading? vojdân, vejdân
Tajik reading? vujdon, vijdon

Noun

Dari وجدان
Iranian Persian
Tajik виҷдон, вуҷдон

وجدان • (vojdân, vejdân)

  1. conscience

Derived terms

  • وجدانی (vojdâni, vejdâni)
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