زرگر

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (zlykl /⁠zarr(ī)gar⁠/, “goldsmith”). By surface analysis, زر (zarr, “gold”) +‎ ـگر (-gar, “-er”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [zaɾ.ˈɡaɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [zäɾ.ɡǽɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [zäɾ.ɡǽɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [zäɾ.ɡǽɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [zäɾ.ɡǽɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [zæɹ.ɡʲǽɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [zäɾ.ɡǽɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	zargar
Dari reading?	zargar
Iranian reading?	zargar
Tajik reading?	zargar

Noun

Dari	زرگر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	заргар

زرگر • (zargar) (plural زرگرها (zargar-hâ) or زرگران (zargarân))

1. goldsmith

   Synonyms: طلاساز (talâsâz), زرساز (zarsâz)

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 168:

     نبض جست و روی سرخ و زرد شد
     کز سمرقندی زرگر فرد شد

     nabz just u rōy surx u zard šud
     k-az samarqandī zargar fard šud

     Her pulse jumped and her face went red and pale, for she had been parted from a man of Samarcand, a goldsmith.

Derived terms

• جنگ زرگری (jang-e zargari)
• زرگری (zargari)

 

Descendants

• → Armenian: զարգար (zargar)
• → Azerbaijani: zərgər
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: ज़रगर (zargar)

  Urdu: زرگر (zargar)

• → Kazakh: зергер (zerger)

References

1. Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “زرگر”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
2. MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “zarr”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
3. PAHLAVICA - "zlykl".