Malay

Alternative forms

• zaman

Noun

زمان ‎(Rumi spelling zaman, plural زمان٢)

1. age (particular period of time in history)

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian ODNA / ẕmʾn' ‎(zamān) (Manichaean Middle Persian zmʾn ‎(zamān)). Compare Avestan [script needed] ‎(zrvan, zrvāna, “time”), Parthian jmʾn ‎(žamān), and Old Armenian borrowings ժաման ‎(žaman), ժամանակ ‎(žamanak).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /zæˈmɒːn/
• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): [zæˈmɒn]

Noun

زمان • ‎(zamân)

1. time (referring to a broad time period like epoch, period, season, etc. It is not the type of time that one reads from a watch or a clock)
2. (physics) time
3. season
4. epoch
5. (grammar) tense
6. death

Derived terms

• زمانمند ‎(zamânmand)
• زمانه ‎(zamâne)
• زمانی ‎(zamâni)
• زمان‌بندی ‎(zamân-bandi)
• فضازمان ‎(fazâ-zamân)

Synonyms

• (time): وقت ‎(vaqt)
• (death): مرگ ‎(marg)

Descendants

• Azeri: zaman
• Bashkir: заман ‎(zaman)
• Dargwa: замана ‎(zamana)
• Kazakh: заман ‎(zaman)
• Kyrgyz: заман
• Ottoman Turkish: زمان ‎(zaman)
  • Turkish: zaman
  • Albanian: zaman
  • Serbo-Croatian: zaman/заман
• Ossetian: за́ман ‎(záman)
• Tatar: заман ‎(zaman)