شاخ

See also: ساح‎

Central Kurdish[edit]

شاخ (şax)

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱak- (“branch”). Cognate with Sanskrit शाखा (śā́khā).

شاخ • (šâx)

horn, antler
a branch, bough, shoot, sucker, twig
the arm, from the tip of the finger to the shoulder
the leg, from the groin to the foot
a small cut from a main stream
the spur of a cock
a rib
a bit, piece
a gusset, gore
the forehead
the main beam in the roof of a house
a cup of wine (from a custom prevailing in Jurjistān, to drink wine out of horns), a goblet, a drinking-horn
wine mixed with rose-water
a horn wherein they keep civet, a scent-box
civet
the civet-cat
spices, perfumes

Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “شاخ+shāḵẖ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

شاخ • (shāx) f (Hindi spelling शाख़)