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”). The ultimate origin is uncertain.

Adjective

اژگهان • (ažgahân)

1. indolent, idle, negligent, lazy, slothful
2. vain, false

Descendants

• Tat: ajqahan (“wide, broad; comfortable”)
• → Azerbaijani: ecgahan (see there for further alternative forms)
• → Udi: аьжгаьгьаьн (äžgähän)

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)‎^[1], 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, number 2, →DOI, pages 369–370