چنگی

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Ottoman Turkish

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چنگی

Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian چَنْگِی (čangī).

Noun

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چنگی (çengi)

  1. public dancer

Descendants

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References

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  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “482. ČINGÍE, sb. f. pl. činǵiǐ, -urǐ”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎[1], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 110

Persian

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Etymology

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From چنگ (čang) +‎ ـی (i).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? čangī
Dari reading? čangī
Iranian reading? čangi
Tajik reading? čangī

Noun

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چنگی (čangi)

  1. harper, lutanist
  2. public dancer

Descendants

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Further reading

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  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “چنگی”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  • Vullers, Johann August (1855) “چنگی”, 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[2] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 596a