داغ

Azerbaijani

Noun

داغ

1. Arabic spelling of dağ (“mountain”)

Declension

Declension of داغ

	singular	plural
nominative	داغ	داغلار
definite accusative	داغێ	داغلارێ
dative	داغا	داغلارا
locative	داغدا	داغلاردا
ablative	داغدان	داغلاردان
definite genitive	داغێن	داغلارێن

Karakhanid

Alternative forms

• ذاغْ

Adverb

داغ (dāg)

1. (Arghu) not

Descendants

• Khalaj: dâğ

References

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074), Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521)‎^[1] (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume III, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 153

Khalaj

Adverb

داغ (dâğ)

1. Arabic spelling of dâğ (“not”)

Notes

• Attested as دق in Ölmez

References

• Ölmez, Mehmet. (1995) "Halaçlar ve Halaçça" [Khalajs and Khalaj language] Çağdaş Türk Dili, Ankara, 84, p. 22.

Ottoman Turkish

داغ

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dɑɣ], [dɑː]
• (Western Rumelia) IPA^(key): [dɑɡ]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Classical Persian داغ (dâġ, “sear, mark”).

Noun

داغ • (dag or dağ) (definite accusative داغی (dagı, dağı), plural داغلر (daglar, dağlar))

1. brand, sear, an identifying mark made by burning with a hot iron, especially to mark livestock

   Synonym: یانق (yanık)

2. scar, cicatrice, a permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound

   Synonym: یاره (yara)

3. (surgery) cautery, cauterization, the process of using extreme heat to cut or seal body tissue

   Synonym: داغلامه (dağlama)

4. (figuratively) inward grief or pain, especially the pangs of unrequited love, or of bereavement

Derived terms

• داغ آب (dag-ı ab, “stain left by damp”)
• داغ باصمق (dağ basmak, “to brand, sear”)
• داغ درون (dag-ı derun, “grief, sorrow, pang”)
• داغ زنده (dag-ı zinde, “open sore”)
• داغ غلامی (dağ gulâmı, “brand on a slave”)
• داغ یاقمق (dağ yakmak, “to burn a brand upon”)
• داغدار (dagdâr, “spotted, blotched, stained”)
• داغداغ (dagdag, “marked with brands or sears”)
• داغلاتمق (dağlatmak, “to make or let be branded”)
• داغلاغی (dağlağı, “branding iron”)
• داغلامق (dağlamak, “to brand; to cauterize”)
• داغلانمق (dağlanmak, “to be branded or cauterized”)
• داغلو (dağlı, “branded, seared”)

Descendants

• Turkish: dag, dağ

Further reading

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• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881), “داغ”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 725
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “dağ4”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1073
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “داغ”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[2], Vienna: F. Beck, page 216b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “داغ”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 562
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Stigma”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1597
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “داغ”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 2005
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “داغ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 882

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

داغ • (dağ) (definite accusative داغی (dağı), plural داغلر (dağlar))

1. alternative form of طاغ (dağ, “mountain, mount”)

Further reading

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• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881), “داغ”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 725
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “داغ”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[7], Vienna: F. Beck, page 216b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “داغ”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[8] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 562

Persian

Dari	داغ
Iranian Persian
Tajik	доғ

Etymology

Cognate with Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬖𐬀 (daγa, “brand; scar, spot”), Sanskrit दाह (dāha, “burning, heat”). Related to Middle Persian [script needed] (dcytn' /⁠dazīdan⁠/, “to burn”), from Proto-Iranian *dáǰatī, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰáǰʰati, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰégʷʰeti.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ˈdaːɣ/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɑːɣ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɑːɣ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪ɑːɣ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪ɔːɣ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɒːɢ̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɔʁ]

Readings
Classical reading?	dāġ
Dari reading?	dāġ
Iranian reading?	dâġ
Tajik reading?	doġ

Adjective

داغ • (dâġ) (comparative داغ‌تَر, superlative داغ‌تَرین)

1. hot

   .چای داغ است

   čây dâġ ast.

   Tea is hot.

Adverb

داغ • (dâġ)

1. exciting

   برایت خبری داغ دارم.

   barâyat xabari dâġ dâram.

   I have an exciting news for you.

Noun

داغ • (dâġ)

1. sear, mark left by cauterization or etching, brand
2. (transferred) mark, stain, blemish, scar, dark spot

   Hypernym: نشان (nešân)

   • 1932, محمد اقبال [Muhammad Iqbāl], “The Divine Presence”, in Arthur J. Arberry, transl., جاویدنامه [Jāvīdnāma, Book of Eternity]‎^[9]:

     اینچنین عالم کجا شایان تست
     آب و گل داغی کہ بر دامان تست

     īnčunīn 'ālam kujā šāyān-i tu-st
     āb u gil dāg-ē ki bar dāmān-i tu-st

     How is such a world worthy of Thee [God]?
     Water and clay are a stain upon Thy skirt.

     (Indo-Persian script)

3. branding iron

Descendants

• → Armenian: դաղ (daġ)
• → Assamese: দাগ (dag)
• → Azerbaijani: dağ
• → Bengali: দাগ (dag)
• → Georgian: დაღი (daɣi)
• → Gujarati: ડાઘો (ḍāgho)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: दाग़ (dāġ)

  Urdu: داغ (dāġ)

• → Kazakh: дақ (daq)
• → Maithili:

  Devanagari script: दाग (dāg)

  Tirhuta script: 𑒠𑒰𑒑 (dāga)

• → Old Marathi: ḍāga

  Devanagari script: डाग

  Modi script: 𑘚𑘰𑘐

  • Marathi: डाग (ḍāg)
• → Ottoman Turkish: داغ (dağ)
  • Turkish: dag, dağ
• → Odia: ଦାଗ (dāga)
• → Old Punjabi: ਦਾਗੁ (dāgu)
  • Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script: ਦਾਗ਼ (dāġ)

    Shahmukhi script: داغ (dāġ)

• → Uyghur: داغ (dagh)

Further reading

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “داغ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Vullers, Johann August (1855), “داغ”, 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^[10] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, pages 792–793

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian داغ (dāġ).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑːɣ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɣ

Noun

داغ • (dāġ) m (Hindi spelling दाग़)

1. a stain, spot

Further reading

• “داغ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “داغ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “داغ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “داغ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.