برنج

See also: پرنج

Bakhtiari

Noun

برنج (berenj)

1. rice

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Central Kurdish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian برنج (berenj).

Noun

برنج (birinc)

1. rice

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Ottoman Turkish

برنج

Alternative forms

• پرنج (pirinç)

Etymology

From Persian برنج (birinj).

Noun

برنج • (birinç)

1. rice

   Synonyms: پلاو (pilav), چلتیك (çeltik), (dialectal) طوغی (düğü, düği), (uncommon) ارز (ürüz), (uncommon) رز (rüz), (Old Ottoman, rare) توترغن (tuturğan)

Descendants

• Turkish: pirinç

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Persian

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian blnj (/⁠brinǰ⁠/); see there for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [beˈɾend͡ʒ]
• IPA^(key): [beˈɾɪnd͡ʒ]
• IPA^(key): [bæˈɾend͡ʒ]

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Noun

Dari	برنج
Iranian Persian
Tajik	биринҷ

برنج • (berenj)

2. rice

Etymology 2

From Middle Persian [script needed] (blnc /⁠brinǰ⁠/), 𐫁𐫡𐫏𐫗𐫗𐫃 (brynng /⁠bring⁠/, “bronze, brass”). Cognate with Parthian 𐫛𐫓𐫏𐫗𐫝 (plync /⁠plinǰ⁠/) (whence Old Armenian պղինձ (płinj, “copper”), Old Georgian პილენძი (ṗilenʒi)).

Noun

برنج • (berenj)

2. brass

Derived terms

• برنجی (berenji)

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “پرنگ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Vullers, Johann August (1855) “برنج”, 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^[1] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 227b