گنگ
See also: کنگ, کبک, کپک, کپگ, كنك, and کنک
Persian
Etymology 1
Perhaps developed from the sense “to mock, hum”. Usually connected to Sanskrit गुञ्जति (guñjati, “buzz, hum”).
Noun
| Dari | گنگ |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | гунг (gung) |
گنگ • (gong)
- mute, a person unable to speak
Adjective
گنگ • (gong)
- (obsolete) crooked, hurled, of a bent back
- mute, a person unable to speak
Descendants
- → Old Anatolian Turkish: [Term?] (“conduit”)
- Azerbaijani: küng
- → Armenian: քունգ (kʿung)
- Ottoman Turkish: كنك (künk)
- Turkish: künk
- → Albanian: qynke, çungu
- → Armenian: քիւնկ (kʿiwnk)
- → Aromanian: ciunge, ciungu
- → Bulgarian: кюнк (kjunk), кю́нец (kjúnec)
- → Greek: κιούγκι (kioúgki)
- → Macedonian: ќунк (ḱunk)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ћу̏нак, чу̏нак
- Latin: ćȕnak, čȕnak
- Azerbaijani: küng
Noun
گنگ • (gang)
- (obsolete) island
Proper noun
گنگ • (gang)
- the river Ganges
- (obsolete) Tashkent
- Synonyms: تاشکند (tâškand), چاچ (čâč)
- (obsolete) Jerusalem
- (historical) the name of a certain mythological city fully گنگ دژ, گنگ دز, or گنگ بهشت
References
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “گنگ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
- Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 137
- Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864), “گنگ”, 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 II, Bonn: Adolf Marcus, pages 1037–1038