دیو

See also: ديو

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Iranian Persian (div).

Noun

دیو • (div)

demon
giant

Descendants

Turkish: dev, div
→ Serbo-Croatian: div / див

Persian


Iranian Persian	دیو
Dari	دیو
Tajik	дев

rostam div râ mi-košad

Rustam slays a demon

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ŠDYA /⁠dēw⁠/, “evil spirit, forces of the Evil One”), from Old Persian 𐎭𐎡𐎺 (daiva-), from Proto-Iranian *daywáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *daywás, from Proto-Indo-European *deywós.

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [deːw]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪eːw]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪eːw]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪eːw]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪iːv]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ew]

Readings
Classical reading^?	dēw
Dari reading^?	dēw
Iranian reading^?	div
Tajik reading^?	dev

Noun

دیو • (div) (plural دیوان (divân) or دیوها (div-hâ))

demon, devil, goblin; evil supernatural creature
- c. 1011, Abu'l-Qāsim Firdawsī, “The tale of the Akwān Dēw”, in شاهنامه [Book of Kings]‎:
  تو مر دیو را مردم بد شناس
  کسی کو ندارد ز یزدان سپاس
  هرانکو گذشت از ره مردمی
  ز دیوان شمر مشمر از آدمی
  tu mar dēw rā mardum-i bad šinās
  kasē k-ō na-dārad zi yazdān sipās
  har ān k-ō guḏašt az rah-i mardumī
  zi dēwān šumar mašumar az ādamī
  Consider the demon to be a bad person.
  Whoever does not have gratitude towards God
  And whoever leaves the proper path of humanity:
  Count him as among the demons, do not consider him a human.
  (Classical Persian romanization)
1. (Islam) wicked jinn; sometimes contrasted with (pari, “fairy, good jinn”).
2. (Zoroastrianism) daeva, a spirit of evil

Derived terms

دیوسان (divsân)

Descendants

→ Arabic: دِيُو (diyū)
- → Kazakh: дию (diü)
→ Bengali: দেও (deō)
→ Hindustani:
- Hindi: देव (dev)
- Urdu: دیو (dev, dyõ)
→ Kazakh: дәу (däu)
→ Turkmen: döw
→ Ottoman Turkish: دیو (div)
- Turkish: dev, div
- → Serbo-Croatian: div / див

Urdu

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Classical Persian (dēw).

Noun

دیو • (dēo, dev) m (Hindi spelling देव)

demon
devil

Etymology 2

From Sanskrit देव (deva).

Noun

دیو • (dev) m (Hindi spelling देव)

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