اژگهان
Persian
Alternative forms
- اژگهن (ažgahan), اژگان (āžgān, ažgān), اژهان (ažhān), اژهن (ažhan), اژکان (ažkān), اژکهن (ažkahan), اژگین (ažgīn)
Etymology
From Middle Persian [script needed] (ʾšghʾn' /aǰgahān/, “lazy, indolent”).[1] The ultimate origin is uncertain.
Adjective
اژگهان • (ažgahān)
- indolent, idle, negligent, lazy, slothful
- vain, false
Descendants
- Tat: ajqahan (“wide, broad; comfortable”)
- → Azerbaijani: ecgahan (see there for further alternative forms)
- → Udi: аьжгаьгьаьн (äžgähän)
References
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 7
Further reading
- Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “اژکان”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
- Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “اژهن”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
- Nyberg, H. S. (1974), “ašgihānēh”, in A Manual of Pahlavi, Part II: Glossary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 34a
- Orsatti, Paola (2003), “Syro-Persian Formulas in Poetic Form in Baptism Liturgy”, in Ludwig Paul, editor, Persian Origins – Early Judaeo-Persian and the emergence of New Persian. Collected Papers of the Symposium, Göttingen 1999 (Iranica; 6), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, page 165
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “اژگﮩان”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 46
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “اژگان”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 46
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “اژهان”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 46
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “اژهن”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 46
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “اژگين”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 46
- Tonoyan, Artyom (2019), “On the Caucasian Persian (Tat) Lexical Substratum in the Baku Dialect of Azerbaijani. Preliminary Notes”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, volume 169, issue 2, DOI:, pages 369–370