خاتون

From Classical Persian خاتون (xātūn, “lady, noblewoman”).

خَاتُون • (ḵātūn) f (plural خَوَاتِين (ḵawātīn))

1. khatun, noblewoman

Borrowed from Persian خاتون (xâtun). Doublet of قادین (kadın).

خاتون • (hatun)

1. lady, dame
2. woman

• Turkish: hatun
• → Georgian: ხათუნა (xatuna)

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خاتون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 818b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خاتون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 525a

 

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Most likely directly from Sogdian 𐼶𐼴𐽂𐼰𐼷𐼻𐼳 (γwtʾynh /⁠xwatēn, xutēn⁠/, “queen”), or perhaps entered Persian via Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫑𐫀𐫎𐫇𐫗 (xʾṯwn /⁠xātūn⁠/, “lady, a Sogdian female title”). Ultimately from Proto-Iranian *hwatā́wniH, a feminine form of Proto-Iranian *hwatā́wā. Related to خدا (xodâ), which was inherited, and to خدیو (xadiv), which was borrowed from Bactrian χοαδηο (xoadēo, “lord”).

Compare Old Turkic 𐰴𐱃𐰆𐰣 (qatun, “queen”), Common Turkic *xātun, Turkish kadın (“woman”) Turkish hatun (“lady, wife”), Karakhanid قاتُونْ (qātūn, “noble woman”), Iranian borrowings.

خاتون • (xâtun)

1. lady, matron
2. noblewoman

• → Arabic: خاتون (ḵātūn)
• → Azerbaijani: xatın
• → Bengali: খাতুন (khatun)
• → Gujarati: ખાતૂન (khātūn)
• → Gulf Arabic: خاتون (ḵātūn, “female nurse”)
• → Middle Armenian: խաթուն (xatʻun)
  • Armenian: խաթուն (xatʻun)
• → Ottoman Turkish: خاتون (hātun)
  • Turkish: hatun
  • → Georgian: ხათუნა (xatuna)
• → Urdu: خاتون (xātūn)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “خاتون”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

Borrowed from Classical Persian خاتون (xātūn, “lady; noblewoman”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /xɑː.t̪uːn/

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• Rhymes: -uːn
• Hyphenation: خا‧تون

خاتُون • (xātūn) f (formal plural خَواتِین (xavātīn), Hindi spelling ख़ातून)

1. lady

   خَواتِین و حَضْرات ― xavātīn o hazrāt ― Ladies and gentlemen

2. first lady; khatun
3. noblewoman

• “خاتون”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “خاتون”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “خاتون”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• “خاتون”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.