زیان

From Persian زیان‎ (ziyân).

زیان • (ziyân)

1. hurt
2. harm
3. injury
4. damage
5. loss
6. mischief

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (zydʾn' /zyān/, “loss, harm, damage”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian. Cognate with Parthian 𐫉𐫏𐫀𐫗‎ (zyʾn /zyān/, “loss, harm, damage, destruction”), Avestan 𐬰𐬌𐬌𐬁𐬥𐬁‎ (ziiānā, “damage”), Sanskrit ज्यान (jyāna, “oppression”), as well as the Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian զեան (zean), Jewish Babylonian Aramaic [script needed] (zīyanā), Classical Mandaic ࡆࡀࡉࡉࡍࡀ‎ (zāyinā).

زیان • (ziyân)

1. damage
2. detriment
3. injury
4. loss

• ضرر‎ (zarar)

• → Northern Kurdish: zîyan
• → Pashto: زيان‎ (zyā́n, ziyā́n)
• → Baluchi: زیان‎ (zyan)
• → Ossetian: зиа́н (zián)
• → Azerbaijani: ziyan
• → Udi: зийан (zijan)
• → Ottoman Turkish: زیان‎ (ziyan)
  • Turkish: ziyan
  • → Armenian: զիյան (ziyan)
  • → Bulgarian: зян (zjan)
  • → Macedonian: зијан (zijan)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: zijan / зијан
• → Georgian: ზიანი (ziani)
• → Bashkir: зыян (zïyan)
• → Kazakh: зиян (zïyan)
• → Turkmen: zyýan
• → Uzbek: ziyon
• → Russian: изъя́н (izʺján) (via Turkic)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973), “զեան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume II, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 89
• Berneker, Erich (1908–1913) Slavisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume I, Heidelberg: Winter, page 440
• Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 150
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 150
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 602–603