دیو

See also: ديو

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian دیو (div).

Noun

دیو • (div)

1. demon
2. giant

Descendants

• Turkish: dev, div
• → Serbo-Croatian: div / див

Persian

Dari	دیو
Iranian Persian
Tajik	дев

رستم دیو را می‌کشد ― Rustam slays a demon

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dyew-

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *deywós

Proto-Indo-Iranian *daywás

Proto-Iranian *daywáh

Old Persian 𐎭𐎡𐎺 (d-i-v)

Persian دیو

Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ŠDYA /⁠dēw⁠/, “evil spirit, forces of the Evil One”), from Old Persian 𐎭𐎡𐎺 (daiva-), from Proto-Iranian *daywáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *daywás, from Proto-Indo-European *deywós.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [deːw]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪eːw]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪eːw]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪eːw]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪eːw]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪iːv]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ew]

Readings
Classical reading?	dēw
Dari reading?	dēw
Iranian reading?	div
Tajik reading?	dev

Noun

دیو • (dēw / div) (plural دیوان or دیوها)

1. demon, devil, goblin; evil supernatural creature
   • c. 1011, Abu'l-Qāsim Firdawsī, “The tale of the Akwān Dēw”, in شاهنامه [Book of Kings]‎^[1]:

     تو مر دیو را مردم بد شناس
     کسی کو ندارد ز یزدان سپاس
     هرانکو گذشت از ره مردمی
     ز دیوان شمر مشمر از آدمی

     tu mar dēw rā mardum-i bad šinās
     kasē k-ō na-dārad zi yazdān sipās
     har ān k-ō guḏašt az rah-i mardumī
     zi dēwān šumar mašumar az ādamī

     Consider the demon to be a bad person.
     Whoever does not have gratitude towards God
     And whoever leaves the proper path of humanity:
     Count him as among the demons, do not consider him a human.

     (Classical Persian romanization)

   1. (Islam) wicked jinn; sometimes contrasted with پری (pari, “fairy, good jinn”).
   2. (Zoroastrianism) daeva, a spirit of evil

Derived terms

• دیوانه (dēwāna / divâne)
• دیوسان (dēwsān / divsân)

 

Descendants

• Dari: دیوْ (dēw)
• Iranian Persian: دیوْ (div, “demon”)
  • → English: div
• Tajik: дев (dev)
• → Bengali: দেও (deō)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: देव (dev)

  Urdu: دیوْ (dev)

• → Kazakh: дәу (däu)
• → Turkmen: döw
• → Ottoman Turkish: دیو (div)
  • Turkish: dev, div
  • → Serbo-Croatian: div / див

Urdu

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Classical Persian دیو (dēw).

Noun

دیو • (dēo, dev) m (Hindi spelling देव)

1. demon
2. devil

Etymology 2

From Sanskrit देव (deva).

Noun

دیو • (dev) m (Hindi spelling देव)

1. deva
2. deity
3. god
4. celestial being