زنگ

See also: زنك and رنگ

Persian

Etymology 1

Cognate with Central Kurdish ژەنگ (žang), Northern Kurdish jeng (žang), Baluchi [script needed] (zang) and with the following Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian ժանգ (žang), Georgian ჟანგი (žangi), ჯანგი (ǯangi), Laz მჟანგი (mjangi), ჯანგი (cangi), Bats ჟანგ (žang), Udi жӏанг (ž:ang), Chagatai زنگ (zang), Assyrian Neo-Aramaic [script needed] (ǰäng).

Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *geng- (“lump”) and cognate with Ancient Greek γόγγρος (góngros, “tubercular disease in olive-trees”). For the sense development compare the meanings "cancer", "disease of plants" found in some of the cognates.

Alternative forms

• ژنگ (žang)

Noun

زنگ • (zang)

1. rust

Related terms

• زنگار (zangâr)
• زنگی (zangi)

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “ժանգ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, pages 225–226
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 156

Etymology 2

Cognate with Central Kurdish زەنگ (zeng). Compare the Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian զանգակ (zangak), Classical Syriac ܙܓܐ (zaggā), ܙܢܓܐ (zangā).

Noun

زنگ • (zang)

1. bell
2. ring (onomatopoeia)
3. buzz (onomatopoeia)

Descendants

• Middle Armenian: զանկ (zank)
  • Armenian: զանգ (zang)
• Azerbaijani: zəng
  • → Udi: заьнҝ (zängʲ)

Related terms

• زنگ زدن (zang zadan)

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “զանգ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 79
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 149

Etymology 3

Proper noun

زنگ • (Zang)

1. (archaic) Black
2. (archaic) Zanzibar

Derived terms

• سیاه زنگی (siyâh-e zangi)
• رنگ زنگ (rang-e zang)
• زنگی (zangi)
• زنگبار (zangebâr)
• زنگستان (zangestân)
• یا رومی روم، یا زنگی زنگ (yâ rumi-ye rum, yâzangi-ye zang)
• نه رومی روم، نه زنگی زنگ (na rumi-ye rum, na zangi-ye zang)

Etymology 4

From Middle Persian [script needed] (zng /⁠zang⁠/, “ankle, shank”). Cognate with English shank.

Proper noun

زنگ • (Zang)

1. ankle, leg