بدن

Etymology

From the root ب د ن (b d n). Cognate with Mehri بدين.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.dan/

Noun

بَدَن • (badan) m (plural أَبْدَان (ʔabdān))

1. body; figure

   Synonyms: جِسْم (jism), جَسَد (jasad), (archaic) شَخْص (šaḵṣ), (archaic) شَبَح (šabaḥ)

   • 12th century CE, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Jawzī, أَخْبَار النِسَاء [ʔaḵbār an-nisāʔ, Stories of Women]:

     وكتب الحجّاج بن يوسف إلى الحكم بن أيّوب قال: اخطب على عبد الملك امرأةً جميلةً من بعيدٍ، مليحةً من قريبٍ، شريفةً في قومها، ذليلةً في نفسها، أمةً لبعلها. . فكتب إليه: أصبتها، وهي خولة بنت مسمع، لولا عظم ثديها! فكتب إليه الحجّاج: لا يحسن بدن المرأة حتّى يعظم ثدياها فتدفي الضّجيع، وتروي الرّضيع.

     Al-Ḥajjāj once wrote to al-Ḥakam ibn ʾAyyūb, "Pledge to ʿAbd al-Malik a woman who looks pretty from afar and sweet up close, who is of noble birth and humble soul, a slave to her husband." The man wrote back, "I have hit upon one: that would be Ḵawlah bint Mismaʿ, aside from the size of her bosom." Thus, al-Ḥajjāj wrote to him, "A woman's form is not good unless her breasts are full enough to warm up a bedmate and satiate a suckling."

2. trunk, torso
4. coat of mail measured to the torso

   Synonym: دِرْع (dirʕ)

Noun

بَدَن • (badan) m (plural بُدُون (budūn))

1. (obsolete) old man, aged man

Noun

بَدَن • (badan) m (plural بُدُون (budūn) or أَبْدُن (ʔabdun))

1. Nubian ibex (Capra nubiana syn. Capra jaela)

   Synonyms: وَعِل نُوبِيّ (waʕil nūbiyy), ثَيْتَل (ṯaytal)

Verb

بَدُنَ or بَدَنَ • (baduna or badana) I (non-past يَبْدُنُ (yabdunu), verbal noun بُدْن (budn) or بَدَانَة (badāna))

1. to be or become fat

Verb

بَدَّنَ • (baddana) II (non-past يُبَدِّنُ (yubaddinu), verbal noun تَبْدِين (tabdīn))

1. (obsolete) to become aged
2. (obsolete) to put a بَدَن (badan) around

Noun

بُدْن • (budn) m

1. verbal noun of بَدُنَ (baduna, “to be fat”)

Noun

بُدُن • (budun) f pl or m pl

1. plural of بَدَنَة (badana, “offered camel”)

Adjective

بُدْن • (budn) m pl

1. masculine plural of بَدِين (badīn, “fat”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1830) “بدن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 97
• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “بدن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 168–169.
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “بدن”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 112
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “بدن”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 73

Noun

بَدَن (bədən) (definite accusative بَدَنی, plural بَدَنلَر)

1. Arabic spelling of bədən (“body”)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَدَن (badan, “body, figure”).

Noun

بدن • (beden) (plural ابدان (ebdan))

1. body, the physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism

   Synonyms: تن (ten), جثه (cüsse), جسم (cism), وجود (vücûd)

2. body, trunk, the main section of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities

   Synonym: گوگده (göğde, gövde)

3. framework, the arrangement of support beams that represent a building's shape and size

   Synonym: چاتی (çatı)

4. (figuratively) body, trunk, the largest or most important part of anything

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “beden”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 522
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “beden”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 95
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بدن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 257
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Corpus”, 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, Vienna, column 291
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بدن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 733
• Moran, Ahmet Vahid (1924) “framework”, in A condensed dictionary, English–Turkish, Constantinople: Fratelli Haim, page 205b
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “beden”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بدن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 348

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic بَدَن (badan).

Etymology 2

Metrical variant, with shortened vowel used to fit the poetic meter.

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بَدَن (badan), borrowed from Arabic بَدَن (badan).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

بَدَن • (badan) m (Hindi spelling बदन)

1. body

   Synonyms: تَن (tan), شَرِیر (śarīr), دیہ (deh)

References

• “بدن”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بدن”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 105

Etymology

From Urdu بدن (badan), Borrowed from Arabic بَدَن (badan).

Noun

بدن (badan)

1. body