شترگاوپلنگ
Persian
Alternative forms
- اشترگاوپلنگ (oštorgâvpalang)
- شترگاو (šotorgâv)
- شترگاو (oštorgâv)
- گاوپلنگ (gâvpalang)
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Persian ʾwštlgʾwplng (uštar-gāw-palang, “giraffe”), compound of ʾwštl (uštar, “camel”) + gʾw (gāw, “ox, cow, bull”) + plng (palang, “leopard”). Compare Old Armenian շտրպաղանգ (štrpałang), an Iranian borrowing. For the formation compare Ancient Greek καμηλοπάρδαλις (kamēlopárdalis), Old Armenian ընձուղտ (ənjułt), Classical Syriac ܓܡܠ ܢܡܪܐ (ɡmal-nemrā).
Pronunciation
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Noun
شترگاوپلنگ • (šotorgâvpalang) (plural شترگاوپلنگها (šotorgâvpalang-hâ) or شترگاوپلنگان (šotorgâvpalangân))
- (archaic) camelopard, giraffe
- Anything composed of very disparate parts.
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References
- Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “شترگاوپلنگ”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “uštar”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 85