ज़बान زبان ♣ Eng. tongue, language

ज़बान زبان ♣ Eng. tongue, language

[zabān], f. the tongue, language.

[←New Pers. zabān ‘tongue’ ◄Middle Pers. uzwān ‘tongue, language’ ◄Old Pers. hizānam acc.sg. ‘tongue’] ♣[Avestan hizū- m. ‘tongue’] ♣[OIA jihvā́- f. ʻtongueʼ RV.]

▲[PIE *dn̥ĝhū, dn̥ĝhu̯ā ‘tongue’](LRC),(AHD)▼

[PIE►·····►Eng. tongue] ♣[PIE►·····→Eng. language, linguist]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0614; (Turner, 1966) 5228; (MW, 1899) 0422; (Pokorny, 1959) 0223; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 1.591; (MacKenzie, 1971) 085; (Horn, 1893) 0650