شاخ
See also: ساح
Arabic
Etymology
From the root ش ي خ (š-y-ḵ).
Pronunciation
Verb
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- to age
Conjugation
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Central Kurdish
Noun
شاخ (şax)
- mountain (large mass of earth and rock)
Persian
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *ḱak- (“branch”). Cognate with Sanskrit शाखा (śā́khā).
Pronunciation
Noun
| Dari | شاخ |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | шох |
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
References
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “شاخ+shāḵẖ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul