Etymology

Turandot

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Today it means: The fictional title character of Carlo Gozzi’s 1762 play Turandot, itself adapted from "Histoire du prince Calaf et de la princesse de la Chine" ('Story of Prince Calaf and the Princess of China') collected in Les Mille et Un Jours (1710–1712) by François Pétis de la Croix, and later featured in adaptations including Friedrich Schiller's 1801 play Turandot and Giacomo Puccini’s 1926 opera Turandot. Full definition →

Italian Turandot ← French Tourandocte ← Classical Persian تُورَاندُخْت
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The story

  1. Classical Persian · derived fromتُورَاندُخْت
  2. French · derived fromTourandocte
  3. Italian · borrowed fromTurandot
  4. English todayTurandot

Borrowed from Italian Turandot, from earlier Turandotte, from French Tourandocte, from Classical Persian تُورَاندُخْت (tūrān-duxt, female given name, literally “daughter of Turan”), from a medieval misreading of پُورَاندُخْت (pūrān-duxt), itself from پُورَان (pūrān, female given name) + دُخْت (duxt, “daughter”). Doublet of Purandukht, Turandukht, and Tourandocte.

Words from the same roots

FrenchTourandocte all →

Tourandocte

Classical Persianتُورَاندُخْت all →

Tourandocte

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.