لاغر

لاغر

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian *lāgar, from Old Persian *lagraʰ, from Proto-Iranian *Hlagráh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hlagʰrás, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ln̥gʷʰrós (“lightweight”).[1][2] Cognate with Northern Kurdish lawaz, Gurani لاواز‎ (lāwāz).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /lɑːɣaɾ/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /lɒːɣaɾ/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /lɒːɢæɾ/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /lɔːɣaɾ/

Adjective

Dari	لاغر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	лоғар (loġar)

لاغَر • (lâğar) (comparative لاغَرتَر‎ (lâğar-tar), superlative لاغَرتَرین‎ (lâğar-tarin))

1. skinny; thin; slender; lithe

   Antonym: چاق‎ (čâq, “fat”)

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, Reynold A. Nicholson, transl., مثنوی معنوی‎ [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume V, verse 3629:

     ‏که طمع لاغر کند زرد و ذلیل / نیست او از علت ابدان علیل‎

     ke tama' lâğar konad zard o zalil / nist u az 'ellat-e abdân 'alil

     For [mere] hope makes him lean, pale, and wretched: he is not ill with bodily ailment.

   • published 1973, فروغ فرخزاد (Forugh Farrokhzad), Hasan Javadi & Susan Sallée (in Another Birth: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad), transl., ایمان بیاوریم به آغاز فصل سرد‎:

     ‏و من به جفت‌گیری گل‌ها می‌اندیشم / به غنچه‌هایی با ساقه‌های لاغر کم خون‎

     va man be joft-giri-ye gol-hâ mi-andišam / be ğonče-hâ-yi bâ sâqe-hâ-ye lâğar-e kam-xun

     and I think of the pollination of the flowers / of the buds with thin anemic stems

Inflection

Enclitic-attached forms of لاغر (lâğar)

Basic forms of لاغر (lâğar) bare لاغر (lâğar) ezâfe لاغر (lâğar-e) marked indefinite or relative definite لاغری‎ (lâğar-i)     Predicative forms of لاغر (lâğar) singular plural 1st person (“I am, we are”) لاغرم‎ (lâğaram) لاغریم‎ (lâğarim) 2nd person (“you are”) لاغری‎ (lâğari) لاغرید‎ (lâğarid) لاغرین‎ △ (lâğarin) 3rd person (“he/she/it is, they are”) لاغر است‎ (lâğar ast) لاغره‎ △ (lâğare) لاغرند‎ (lâğarand) لاغرن‎ △ (lâğaran) △ Colloquial.

Derived terms

(verbs)

• لاغر شدن‎ (lâğar šodan)
• لاغر کردن‎ (lâgar kardan)

 

(other)

• لاغری‎ (lâğari)

 

Descendants

• → Middle Armenian: լաղար (lałar)
  • Armenian: լղար (lłar)
• → Azerbaijani: lağər
• → Central Kurdish: له‌ڕ‎ (lerr)
• → Northern Kurdish: lexer
• → Ottoman Turkish: لاغر‎ (lağar)
  • Turkish: lagar

References

1. Mann, Stuart E. (1984–1987), “ln̥gu̯hros”, in An Indo-European Comparative Dictionary, Hamburg: Buske, column 700
2. Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 275