شاخ
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See also: ساح
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Central Kurdish[edit]
Noun[edit]
شاخ (şax)
- mountain (large mass of earth and rock)
Persian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *ḱak- (“branch”). Cognate with Sanskrit शाखा (śā́khā).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
| Dari | شاخ |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | شاخ |
| Tajik | шох (šox) |
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
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “شاخ+shāḵẖ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
