zaman

From Cariban

zaman

1. Albizia saman, a large tropical tree in the pea family.
   • 1995, Madison Smartt Bell, All souls' rising‎, page 327:

     On shore, the mule's pinkish ears revolved lazily in the shade of the zaman tree.

• (Albizia saman): monkey pod, rain tree, saman, zamang

• Albizia saman on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• namaz

From Arabic زَمَان‎ (zamān).

• IPA^(key): [zɑˈmɑn]
• Hyphenation: za‧man

zaman (definite accusative zamanı, plural zamanlar)

1. time

   Zaman puldur. ― Time is money.

   Synonym: vaxt

2. (grammar) tense

   keçmiş zaman ― past tense

   indiki zaman ― present tense

   gələcək zaman ― future tense

• zaman-zaman (“from time to time”)
• zəmanə (“times, period, era”)

From Malay zaman, from Persian زمان‎ (zamân), from Middle Persian [script needed] (zamān).

zaman (plural zaman-zaman, first-person possessive zamanku, second-person possessive zamanmu, third-person possessive zamannya)

1. age (particular period of time in history)
2. era

• زمان‎

From Persian زمان‎ (zamân), from Middle Persian [script needed] (zamān).

• IPA^(key): /zaman/
• Rhymes: -aman, -man, -an

zaman (Jawi spelling زمان, plural zaman-zaman)

1. age (particular period of time in history)

From Ottoman Turkish زمان‎ (zaman), from Persian زمان‎ (zamân).

• IPA^(key): /zǎmaːn/
• Hyphenation: za‧man

zàmān m (Cyrillic spelling за̀ма̄н)

1. time
2. epoch
3. era

From Proto-Slavic *za vъ manъ; compare za, u, mána.

• IPA^(key): /zâmaːn/
• Hyphenation: za‧man

zȁmān (Cyrillic spelling за̏ма̄н)

1. in vain
2. freely, gratis, for nothing

From Proto-Slavic *za vъ manъ.

• IPA^(key): /zaˈmán/
• Tonal orthography: zamȁn

zamàn

1. in vain, without success

   vse je zaman

   it's all in vain

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:zaman.

From Ottoman Turkish زمان‎ (zamān), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (zamān), either from Arabic زَمَان‎ (zamān) or Persian زمان‎ (zamân).

• IPA^(key): [zɑˈmɑ́n]
• IPA^(key): [zɑˈmɑːn] (when followed by a vowel)

zaman (definite accusative zamanı, plural zamanlar)

1. time (referring to a broad time period like epoch, period, season, etc. It is not the type of time that one reads from a watch or a clock)
2. epoch
3. era
4. (grammar) tense

• zaman zaman