تاج

Root
ت و ج (t w j)
6 terms

From Parthian [script needed] (tāg), attested in 𐫟𐫀𐫡𐫤𐫀𐫃 (xʾrtʾg /⁠xārtāg⁠/, “crown of thorns”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“to cover”). Related to Arabic تَخْت (taḵt, “bed, couch...”), also an Iranian borrowing; and to Aramaic תָּגָא (tāḡā).

Attested as 𐢞𐢄 (tj, “crown”) (Nabatean script) in the 4th-century Namara inscription.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /taːd͡ʒ/

تَاج • (tāj) m (plural تِيجَان (tījān))

1. crown

   الصِّحَّةُ تَاجٌ عَلَى رُؤُوسِ الْأَصِحَّاءِ لَا يَرَاهُ إِلَّا الْمَرْضَى.

   aṣ-ṣiḥḥatu tājun ʕalā ruʔūsi l-ʔaṣiḥḥāʔi lā yarāhu ʔillā l-marḍā.

   Health is a crown on the heads of the healthy, that only the ill can see.

• Andalusian Arabic: تَاج^[1]
• Maltese: tieġ
• → Chagatai: تاج (taj)
  • Uyghur: تاج (taj)
  • Uzbek: toj
• → English: taj
• → Persian: تاج (tâj)
  • → Baluchi: تاج (táj)
  • → Bashkir: таж (taj)
  • → Bengali: তাজ (taj)
  • → Chechen: таж (taž)
  • → Kazakh: тәж (täj)
  • → Punjabi: ਤਾਜ (tāj)
  • → Turkish: taç
  • → Urdu: تاج (tāj) / Hindi: ताज (tāj)
• → Ottoman Turkish: تاج (tac)
  • Turkish: taç
  • → Serbo-Croatian: tȁdž/та̏џ
• → Swahili: taji

From Persian تاج (tâj).

تاج • (táj)

1. crown

From Arabic تَاج (tāj).

تاج • (tac, taç)

1. crown, diadem
2. regal power, the position of someone who bears a crown
3. (figurative) reign
4. a headdress worn by various orders of dervishes, a mitre
5. corolla of a flower
6. chapiteau of an alembic
7. the تاج التواریخ (tac üt-tevarih, “Crown of Histories”) by Sadeddin, a model for the ornatest style of literature

• Turkish: taç
• → Serbo-Croatian: tȁdž/та̏џ

Borrowed from Arabic تَاج (tāj), from Parthian [Manichaean needed] (tʾg /⁠tāg⁠/, “crown”), attested in 𐫟𐫀𐫡𐫤𐫀𐫃 (xʾrtʾg /⁠xārtāg⁠/, “crown of thorns”), from Old Iranian *tāga-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“to cover”).

Related to Persian تخت (taxt, “bed, throne”), and akin to Old Armenian թագ (tʻag), Arabic تاج (tāj), and Aramaic תָּגָא (tāḡā), Iranian borrowings.

Readings
Classical reading?	tāj
Dari reading?	tāj
Iranian reading?	tâj
Tajik reading?	toj

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Dari	تاج
Iranian Persian
Tajik	тоҷ

تاج • (tâj) (plural تاج‌ها (tâj-hâ))

1. crown
2. tuft

• → Baluchi: تاج (táj)
• → Bashkir: таж (taj)
• → Bengali: তাজ (taj)
• → Chechen: таж (taž)
• → Kazakh: тәж (täj)
• → Punjabi: ਤਾਜ (tāj)
• → Turkish: taç
• → Urdu: تاج (tāj) / Hindi: ताज (tāj)

Borrowed from Classical Persian تاج (tāj).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t̪ɑːd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːd͡ʒ

تاج • (tāj) m (Hindi spelling ताज)

1. crown

From Persian تاج (tâj).

• IPA^(key): /tɑd͡ʒ/

تاج • (taj) (plural تاجلار (tajlar))

1. crown (royal headdress)

• Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN