گردن

See also: کردن

Baluchi

Noun

گردن • (gardin, gardan)

1. neck

Central Kurdish

Verb

گردن (girdin) (present stem گر- (gir-))

1. Alternative form of گرتن (girtin)

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• گردان (gerdan)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian گردن (gardan, “neck”).

Noun

گردن • (gerden)

1. neck, collum, the part of the body connecting the head and the trunk

   Synonyms: بویون (boyun), عنق (ʿunk)

Derived terms

• گردنلك (gerdenlik, “anything worn around the neck”)

Descendants

• Turkish: gerdan
• → Albanian: gjerdan, gjardan, gjerdhan, gjordan
• → Armenian: կէռտան (kēṙtan), կէրտան (kērtan)
• → Aromanian: ghiurdane, ghiurdani, ghirdane, ghirdani
• → Bulgarian: герда́н (gerdán)
• → Greek: [script needed] (gjortáni), [script needed] (giurdáni)
• → Macedonian: ѓердан (ǵerdan)
• → Romanian: gherdan, ghiordan, ghirdan
• → Serbo-Croatian: ђѐрда̄н／đèrdān

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gerden”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1686
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كردن”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 337a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كردن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1020
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Collum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 204
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كردن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3913
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كردن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1536

Persian

Etymology

Cognate with Khotanese gaḍaa- (“throat, neck”), etc.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ɡaɾ.ˈdan]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡäɾ.d̪ǽn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡäɾ.d̪ǽn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ɡäɾ.d̪ǽn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ɡäɾ.d̪ǽn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡʲæɹ.d̪ǽn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡäɾ.d̪ǽn]

Readings
Classical reading?	gardan
Dari reading?	gardan
Iranian reading?	gardan
Tajik reading?	gardan

Noun

Dari	گردن
Iranian Persian
Tajik	гардан

گردن • (gardan)

1. neck
2. responsibility

Derived terms

• گردن بند (gardan band)

Descendants

• Tajik: гардан (gardan)
• → Azerbaijani: gərdən
• → Hindi: गर्दन (gardan)
• → Northern Kurdish: gerden
• → Kolami: గర్దన్ (gardan)
• → Ottoman Turkish: گردن (gerden), گردان (gerdan)
  • Turkish: gerdan
  • → Albanian: gjerdan, gjardan, gjerdhan, gjordan
  • → Armenian: կէռտան (kēṙtan), կէրտան (kērtan)
  • → Aromanian: ghiurdane, ghiurdani, ghirdane, ghirdani
  • → Bulgarian: герда́н (gerdán)
  • → Greek: [script needed] (gjortáni), [script needed] (giurdáni)
  • → Macedonian: ѓердан (ǵerdan)
  • → Romanian: gherdan, ghiordan, ghirdan
  • → Serbo-Croatian: ђѐрда̄н／đèrdān
• → Uyghur: گەدەن (geden)
• → Uzbek: gardan

Urdu

Picture dictionary

گردن

کھوپڑی

دماغ

آنکھ

ہونٹ

ناک

منہ

ٹھوڑی

جبڑا

کنپٹی

کان

گردن

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Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian گردن (gardan).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɡəɾ.d̪ən/

• Audio (Pakistan):

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• Rhymes: -ən

Noun

گَرْدَن • (gardan) f (Hindi spelling गरदन)

1. neck

Declension

Declension of گردن
	singular	plural
direct	گردن (gardan)	گردنیں (gardanẽ)
oblique	گردن (gardan)	گردنوں (gardanõ)
vocative	گردن (gardan)	گردنو (gardano)

References

• “گردن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “گردن”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.