چنگ
See also: خنک, خنگ, حنك, جنک, and جنگ
Persian
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /t͡ʃanɡ/
- (Dari Persian) IPA(key): /t͡ʃanɡ/
- (Iranian Persian) IPA(key): /t͡ʃænɡ/
- (Tajik) IPA(key): /t͡ʃanɡ/
Etymology 1
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”). Compare English hook; also related to Old Armenian ճանկ (čank), Middle Georgian ჭანგი (č̣angi), Iranian borrowings.
Noun
| Dari | چنگ |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | чанг (čang) |
چنگ • (čang) (plural چنگها (čang-hâ) or چنگان (čangân))
- claw, talon
- clutch, embrace
- (dialectal, literary) hand, finger
- (dialectal, literary) beak
Related terms
- چنگک (čangak)
- چنگله (čangale)
- چنگار (čangâr)
- چنگال (čangâl)
Descendants
- → Armenian: չանգ (čʿang)
- → Azerbaijani: cəng
- → Ottoman Turkish: چنك (çenk)
Etymology 2
Possibly related to the meaning of “claw” and “talon”, from Middle Persian [script needed] (cng /čang/, “harp”). Cognate to Parthian [Manichaean needed] (šng /šang/, “harp”), Sogdian [Manichaean needed] (cyngry’ /čingaryā/), [Manichaean needed] (cngry’ /čangaryā/, “(a kind of) musical instrument, (a kind of) harp”); also related to Arabic صَنْج (ṣanj), a Middle Persian borrowing.
Noun
چنگ • (čang) (plural چنگها (čang-hâ))
- (music) lyre, harp
Related terms
- چنگله (čangale)
- چنگی (čangī)
- چنگزن (čang-zan)
Descendants
- → Arabic: جَنْك (jank), جُنْك (junk)
- → Azerbaijani: çəng
- → Burmese: စောင်း (caung:)
- → Mon: စံၚ်
- → Georgian: ჩანგი (čangi)
- → Ottoman Turkish: چنك (çenk, çeng)
- Turkish: çenk, çeng
References
- Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “چنگ”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “چنگ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
- Vullers, Johann August (1855), “چنگ”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume I, Bonn: Adolf Marcus, page 595
- Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 217
- Gharib, B. (1995), “čingaryā”, in Sogdian dictionary: Sogdian–Persian–English, Tehran: Farhangan Publications, page 132