Persian

Alternative forms

• هندام ‎(handâm, hendâm)

Noun

اندام • ‎(andâm) ‎(plural اندام‌ها ‎(andâm-hâ))

1. limb
2. organ
3. body, figure
4. (archaic) symmetry, order, arrangement

Derived terms

• اندامی ‎(andâmi)
• خوش‌اندام ‎(xoš-andâm)
• درشت‌اندام ‎(dorošt-andâm)
• میانه‌اندام ‎(miyâne-andâm)
• عرض اندام ‎(arz-e-andâm)
  • عرض اندام کردن ‎(arz-e-andâm kardan)

Descendants

• → Azeri: əndam
• → Ottoman Turkish: اندام ‎(endam)
  • Turkish: arz-ı endam etmek

References

• "اندام" in Dehkhoda Dictionary.
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “handām”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 41
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “անդամ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935, page 187b
• Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 864