باذنجان

See also: بادنجان

Arabic

Alternative forms

بَاتِنْجَان (bātinjān), بَتِنْجَان (batinjān), بِدِنْجَان (bidinjān)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Dravidian *waẓVtVder.

Sanskrit वातिङ्गण (vātiṅgaṇa)bor.

Classical Persian (bāzingān)bor.

Arabic باذنجان

Borrowed from Classical Persian (bāzingān), (bātingān), an Indo-Aryan borrowing, from Sanskrit वातिङ्गण (vātiṅgaṇa), from Dravidian, ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *waẓVtV.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /baː.ðin.d͡ʒaːn/

Noun

بَاذِنْجَان • (bāḏinjān) m

(collective) eggplant, aubergine

Declension

Declension of noun **بَاذِنْجَان** (bāḏinjān)
singular	basic singular triptote
singular	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	بَاذِنْجَان bāḏinjān	الْبَاذِنْجَان al-bāḏinjān	بَاذِنْجَان bāḏinjān
nominative	بَاذِنْجَانٌ bāḏinjānun	الْبَاذِنْجَانُ al-bāḏinjānu	بَاذِنْجَانُ bāḏinjānu
accusative	بَاذِنْجَانًا bāḏinjānan	الْبَاذِنْجَانَ al-bāḏinjāna	بَاذِنْجَانَ bāḏinjāna
genitive	بَاذِنْجَانٍ bāḏinjānin	الْبَاذِنْجَانِ al-bāḏinjāni	بَاذِنْجَانِ bāḏinjāni

Descendants

Egyptian Arabic: بتنجان (betengān), برنجان (berengān)
Gulf Arabic: بيذيان (bēḏyān), بيديان (bēdyān)
Hijazi Arabic: بادنجان (bādinjān), باتنجان (bātinjān)
Maltese: brunġiel, brinġiel
Moroccan Arabic: دنجال (danjāl), دنجان (danjān), دمنجال (dmanjāl), دمنجان (dmanjān)

Borrowings:

→ Asturian: berenxena
→ Azerbaijani: badımcan
→ Banjarese: balinjan (“tomato”)
→ Italian: petonciano (regional)
→ Mandailing Batak: balinjan
→ Middle Armenian: պատինճան (patinčan), պանջան (panǰan), պատընճ (patənč), պատընճան (patənčan), պատընջան (patənǰan), պատնիճան (patničan), պատնճան (patnčan), պատնջան (patnǰan), պորինճան (porinčan), վադրճան (vadrčan), վարճան (varčan)
- Armenian: բադրիջան (badriǰan), բադրջան (badrǰan), բադինջան (badinǰan), բադիրջան (badirǰan), բադումջան (badumǰan), բալդըրջան (baldərǰan), պաթլիջան (patʻliǰan), պատըլճան (patəlčan), պատըրջան (patərǰan), պատիծան (patican), պատիճան (patičan), պատինճան (patinčan), պատնճան (patnčan), պատնչան (patnčʻan), պատնջան (patnǰan), պատրիչան (patričʻan), պատրջամ (patrǰam), պորինջան (porinǰan), փաթլիջան (pʻatʻliǰan)
→ Old Galician-Portuguese: berengenha
- Fala: berenjena
- Galician: berenxena
- Portuguese: beringela, berengela (obsolete), berinjela (Brazil)
  - → English: brinjal, bringal, bringall, bringaul, brinjall, brinjaul
  - → Gujarati: બ્રિંજલ (briñjal)
  - → Hunsrik: Bërinschela
→ Sardinian: pedringianu
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: патлиџан

Latin script: patlidžan
→ Spanish: berenjena (see there for further descendants)
→ Swahili: bilingani
⇒ Arabic: اَلْبَاذِنْجَان (al-bāḏinjān, “the eggplant”) (with article)
- → Aragonese: alberchena
- → Catalan: albergínia, verginya (Alghero)
  - → Basque: alberjinia
  - → French: aubergine (see there for further descendants)
⇒ Romance: reshaped by word for "apple" (descendants of mālum)
- Corsican: melzana
- Emilian: melanzena
- Friulian: melanzane
- Italian: melanzana, melenzana (archaic, dialectal)
  - → Byzantine Greek: μελιτζάνα (melitzána)
    - Greek: μελιτζάνα (melitzána)
  - → Austrian German: Melanzani
  - → Greek: μελιτζάνα (melitzána)
  - → Macedonian: малиџано (malidžano)
    - → English: malidzano
  - → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: меланцана
    Latin script: melancana
  - → Slovene: melancána
  - → Tigrinya: መለንዛና (mälänzana)
- Ladino: melanzana
- Ligurian: meizann-a, merenzana
- Lombard: meresgian, maresgian, maresà, maregià
- Medieval Latin: mēlongēna
- Neapolitan: mulignana
- Occitan: merinjana
- Piedmontese: marzana
- Sardinian: melinzana
- Sicilian: milinciana, mulinciana, mulanciana (unstressed vowel variants), milinzana (Italianized form)
- Venetan: meƚansana

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَاذِنْجَان (bāḏinjān), from Persian (bâdengân).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /baː.ðin.ˈd͡ʒaːn/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bɑː.zɪn.d͡ʒɑːn]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [bɑː.zɪn.d͡ʒɑːn]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bɔː.zin.d͡ʒɔːn]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [bɒː.zen.d͡ʒɒːn]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bɔ.zin.d͡ʒɔn]

Readings
Classical reading^?	bāḏinjān
Dari reading^?	bāzinjān
Iranian reading^?	bâzenjân
Tajik reading^?	bozinjon

Noun

باذنجان • (bâzenjân)

alternative form of