Meaning of زبان | Babel Free

Definitions

1. tongue (body part)
2. language
3. Equivalent to 'language': A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.

Equivalents

Examples

“بَر زَبَان نَامِ حَقّ و دَر جَانِ او گَنْدهَا اَز فِکْرِ بیاِیمَانِ او”

On his tongue the name of God And in his soul stenches from his infidel thought.

“مباد از دهن من دمی زبان تو دور که از لبم نشود ذره دهان تو دور”

May your tongue never be far from my mouth for even a moment, So that your minuscule mouth never gets far from my lips.

“در زبان اردو، این کلمه به معنی « بزرگ » است.”

In the Urdu language, this word means "big".

“اَی بَسَا هِنْدُو و تُرْکِ هَم زَبَان اَی بَسَا دُو تُرْک چون بیگَانَگَان”

Oh, many are the Indians and Turks that speak the same tongue; oh, many the pair of Turks that are as strangers [to each other].

“بَرَهْمَن اَز لَبِ هِنْدِی نَژَادَان نُکْتَه میسَنْجَد زَبَانِ پَارْسِی و تُرْکِی و تَازِی نَمیدَانَد.”

[This] brahman weighs his subtle wits with lips of Hindi lineage he knows not the Persian nor the Turkish nor the Arabic tongues.

“وَ یَزْدَان بَهْرِ آبَاد نَامِهای فِرِسْتَاد دَسَاتیرِ نَام کِه دَر او هَر دَانِش و هَمِه زَبَان بود.”

And God sent for Ābād's sake a book, Dasātir by name, within which there is all knowledge and every language.

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