دیوانه

Persian

Alternative forms

دیوونه (divune) (colloquial Tehrani)

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (dyw'nk' /⁠dēwānag⁠/, “demonic; crazy, insane”), from Proto-Iranian *daywánah (“demon possessed; insane, crazy”).^[1]

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [deː.wɑː.na]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪eː.wɑː.nä]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪eː.wɑː.nä]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪eː.wɔː.nä]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪iː.vɒː.ne]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪e.vɔ.nä]

Readings
Classical reading^?	dēwāna
Dari reading^?	dēwāna
Iranian reading^?	divâne
Tajik reading^?	devona

Audio (Iran): (file)

Adjective

دیوانه • (divâne) (comparative دیوانه‌تَر (divâne-tar), superlative دیوانه‌تَرین (divâne-tarin))

mad, insane, crazy

Noun


Iranian Persian	دیوانه
Dari	دیوانه
Tajik	девона

دیوانه • (divâne)

madman, lunatic
gol-hâ par-paran ey vây,
yek divâne dar bâghe. (Iranian Reading)
gul-hā par-paran ay wāy,
yak dēwāna dar bāgha. (Dari Reading)
oh, the flowers are wilted,
there's a madman in the garden.

Inflection

Predicative forms of دیوانه (divâne)
	singular	plural
1^st person (“I am, we are”)	دیوانه‌ام (divâné-am) دیوونه‌ام، دیوونم ^△ (divunám)	دیوانه‌ایم (divâné-im) دیوونه‌ایم ^△ (divuné-im)
2^nd person (“you are”)	دیوانه‌ای (divâné-i) دیوونه‌ای ^△ (divuné-i)	دیوانه‌اید (divâné-id) دیوونه‌این ^△ (divuné-in)
3^rd person (“he/she/it is, they are”)	دیوانه است (divâné ast) دیوونه‌ئه، دیوونس ^△ (divuné-e, divunás)	دیوانه‌اند (divâné-and) دیوونه‌ان، دیوونن ^△ (divuné-an, divunán)
^△ Colloquial.

Descendants

→ Armenian: դիվանա (divana)
→ Azerbaijani: divanə
→ Bashkir: диуана (diwana)
→ Bengali: দেওয়ানা (deōẇana)
→ Gilaki: دیوانه (divane)
→ Gujarati: દીવાનું (dīvānũ)
→ Hindustani:
Hindi: दीवाना (dīvānā)

Urdu: دیوانہ (dīvānā)
→ Kermanic: dīvūna, dīūna, dīvā̊na, dīyūne
→ Malay: déwana
- Indonesian: dèwana
→ Marathi: दिवाणे (divāṇe)
→ Ormuri: دېوانه (dēwāna)
→ Punjabi:
Gurmukhi script: ਦਿਵਾਨਾ (divānā), ਦੀਵਾਨਾ (dīvānā)

Shahmukhi script: دیوانہ (dīvānā).
→ Parachi: دیوانه (dīwāna)
→ Pashto: دېوانه (dewāná)
→ Sangisari: دیوانه (divâne)
→ Semnani: دیوانه (divånä)
→ Shahmirzadi: دیوونه (dīvūna)
→ Shughni: dēwunā
→ Sivandi: دیوانه (dīvā̊ne)
→ Talysh: دیوونه (divona)
→ Turkish: divane
→ Uzbek: devona

References

^ Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2000–) “*daiu̯a-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura

[1] Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2000–) “*daiu̯a-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura

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