جشن

See also: خشن, حسن, and ح س ن

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (yšn' /⁠jašn⁠/), from Old Persian [script needed] (*yašna-), from Proto-Iranian *Hyajnáh (“worship, sacrifice”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒaʃn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒäʃn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒäʃn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒäʃn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒäʃn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒæʃn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒäʃn]

Readings
Classical reading?	jašn
Dari reading?	jašn
Iranian reading?	jašn
Tajik reading?	jašn

• Audio (Iran):

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Noun

Dari	جشن
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ҷашн

جَشْن • (jašn) (plural جشن‌ها (jašn-hâ))

1. celebration, festival, feast

   جشن نوروز ― jašn-e nowruz ― Nowruz celebrations

   جشن تولد ― jašn-e tavallod ― birthday celebrations

   جشنی برپا بود. ― jašni barpâ bud. ― A festival was underway.

   • c. 1030, Farrukhī Sīstānī, “ترجیعات”, in دیوان اشعار [Diwān-i Ašʿār]:

     بدین شایستگی جشنی بدین بایستگی روزی
     ملک را در جهان هر روز جشنی باد و نوروزی

     bedin šâyestegi jašni bedin bâyestegi ruzi
     malek râ dar jahân har ruz jašni bâd o nowruzi

     A feast of such worth, a day of such need; may every day be a feast and a Nowruz to the king in the world!

Derived terms

• جشن گرفتن (jašn gereftan)

Descendants

• Bengali: জশন (jośon), জশ্ন (jośno)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: जशन (jaśan), जश्न (jaśna)

  Urdu: جَشْن (jaśn)

• → Pashto: جشن (jašᶕn)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian جَشْن (jašn).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒəʃ(.ə)n/
• Rhymes: -əʃn
• Hyphenation: جَشْن

Noun

جَشْن • (jaśn) m (Hindi spelling जशन)

1. banquet, feast
2. festival, celebration

Declension

Declension of جشن
	singular	plural
direct	جَشْن (jaśn)	جَشْن (jaśn)
oblique	جَشْن (jaśn)	جَشْنوں (jaśnõ)
vocative	جَشْن (jaśn)	جَشْنو (jaśno)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• جَشْنِ عِید (jaśn-i 'īd, “Eid celebrations”)
• جَشْنِ عَظِیم (jaśn-i 'azīm, “grand celebration”)
• جَشْنِ فَتْح (jaśn-i fath, “victory celebration”)
• جَشْنِ سال گِرَہ (jaśn-i sāl gira, “birthday celebration”)
• جَشْنِ بَہاران (jaśn-i bahārān, “spring celebration”)
• جَشْنِ بُزُرْگ (jaśn-i buzurg, “Persian new year”)
• جَشْنِ نَوروز (jaśn-i nauroz, “Nowruz”)
• جَشْنِ آزادی (jaśn-i āzādī, “independence day”)
• جَشْنی (jaśnī, “fond of feasting”)

Further reading

• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “جشن”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]
• “جشن”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• “جشن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.