زبانزد

Persian

Etymology

From (zabân, “tongue”) +‎ (zad, past stem of (zadan, “strike”)).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /za.baːn.ˈzad/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [zä.bɑːn.zád̪]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [zä.bɑːn.zád̪]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [zä.bɔːn.zád̪̥]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [zæ.bɒːn.zǽd̪̥]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [zä.bɔn.zád̪]

Readings
Classical reading^?	zabānzad
Dari reading^?	zabānzad
Iranian reading^?	zabânzad
Tajik reading^?	zabonzad

Adjective

زبانزد • (zabânzad)

(literary) celebrated, talk of the town
- c. 1599, Bahāʾ al‐Dīn ʿĀmilī, کشکول‎^[1]:
  غزالی پس از مرگ امام الحرمین، نشابور را ترک کرد و به بغداد شد. دانش وی اعجاب فضلای عراق را برانگیخت و وی را زبانزد مردم بغداد ساخت.
  ġazālī pas az marg-i imāmu-l-haramayn, nišābūr rā tark kard u ba baġdād šud. dāniš-i way i'jāb-i fuzalā-yi irāq rā barangēxt u way rā zabānzad-i mardum-i baġdād sāxt.
  After the death of the Imām al-Ḥaramayn, Ghazālī left Nishapur and went to Baghdad. His knowledge astonished the erudite men of Iraq and made him the talk of the town of the people of Baghdad.
  (Classical Persian romanization)

Further reading

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “زبانزد”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim