داج

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Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic دَاجٍ (dājin).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? dāj
Dari reading? dāj
Iranian reading? dâj
Tajik reading? doj

Noun

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داج (dâj)

  1. darkness, obscurity; dark night
    Synonyms: تاریکی (târiki), ظلمت (zolmat)
    • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 97”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎[1]:
      بیاض روی تو روشن چو عارض رخ روز
      سواد زلف سیاه تو هست ظلمت داج
      bayāz-i rō-yi tu rōšan čū āriz-i rux-i rōz
      sawād-i zulf-i siyāh-i tu hast zulmat-i dāj
      The whiteness of your face is bright like the cheeks of the face of day,
      The blackness of your sable locks is the darkness of obscure night.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

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  • Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “داج”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Punjabi

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Western Panjabi Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Inherited from Sanskrit दायाद्य n (dāyādya, inheritance).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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داج (dājm (Gurmukhi spelling ਦਾਜ)

  1. dowry, trousseau
    Synonym: جَہیز (jahez)

Declension

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Declension of داج
dir. sg. داج (dāj)
dir. pl. داج (dāj)
singular plural
direct داج (dāj) داج (dāj)
oblique داج (dāj) داجاں (dājāṉ)
vocative داجا (dājā) داجو (dājo)
ablative داجوں (dājoṉ) داجاں (dājāṉ)
locative داجے (dāje) داجِیں (dājīṉ)
instrumental داجوں (dājoṉ)

References

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  • داج”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024
  • Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “داج”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz