زینت

Borrowed from Arabic زِينَة (zīna, “ornament, decoration, embellishment”); compare Azerbaijani ziynət, Kazakh зейнет (zeinet), Turkmen zynat, Uyghur زىننەت (zinnet) and Uzbek ziynat.

زینت • (ziynet)

1. ornament, decoration, embellishment, garnish, any item that adorns, enriches, or beautifies

   Synonyms: آرایش (arayış), بزك (bezek), زیور (ziver), سوس (süs)

• Turkish: ziynet

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ziynet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5492
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “zînet”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1429
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “زینت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 654
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ornamentum”, 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 1222
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “زینت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2502
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ziynet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زینت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1023

Borrowed from Arabic زِينَة (zīna).

Readings
Classical reading?	zīnat
Dari reading?	zīnat
Iranian reading?	zinat
Tajik reading?	zinat

زینت • (zīnat)

1. ornament, adornment

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “زینت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Borrowed from Classical Persian زِینَت (zīnat), borrowed from Arabic زِينَة (zīna).^[1] First attested in c. 1635 as Middle Hindi زینت (zynt /⁠zīnat⁠/).^[2]

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ziː.nət̪/
• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: زِی‧نَت

زِینَت • (zīnat) f (Hindi spelling ज़ीनत)

1. elegance, grace, beauty

   Synonym: سوبھا (sobhā)

2. embellishment, adornment
3. splendour

Declension of زینت
	singular	plural
direct	زِینَت (zīnat)	زِینَتیں (zīnatẽ)
oblique	زِینَت (zīnat)	زِینَتوں (zīnatõ)
vocative	زِینَت (zīnat)	زِینَتو (zīnato)

• “زینت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.