قشنگ

See also: فشنگ‎

Khalaj

Adjective

قَشَنگ (qəşəng)

1. Arabic spelling of qəşəng (“beautiful, pretty, handsome”)

Persian

Etymology

From Sogdian ʾγšnk- ((ə)xšank, “beautiful”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [qa.ˈʃanɡ]

 

• (Dari, formal/KBL) IPA^(key): [qä.ʃǽŋɡ]

• (Dari, formal/KBL) IPA^(key): [qä.ʃǽŋɡ]
  • (Hazaragi/approx.) IPA^(key): [qä.ʃǽŋɡ̥]

• (Iran, formal/TEH) IPA^(key): [qæ.ʃǽɲɟ̥]

• (Tajik, formal/DUS) IPA^(key): [qä.ʃǽŋɡ]

• Phonetic Persian:

Traditional: [قَشَنْگ]‎

Iranian: [غَشَنْگ]‎

Readings
Classical reading?	qašang
Dari reading?	qašang
Iranian reading?	ğašang
Tajik reading?	qašang

• (Hamadan) IPA^(key): [ɢeˈʃæŋɡ]

Adjective

قشنگ • (qašang) (comparative قشنگ‌تَر‎ (qašang-tar), superlative قشنگ‌تَرین‎ (qašang-tarin))

1. beautiful
2. lovely
3. pretty

Inflection

Predicative forms of قشنگ (qašang)
	singular	plural
1st person (“I am, we are”)	قشنگم‎ (qašangam)	قشنگیم‎ (qašangim)
2nd person (“you are”)	قشنگی‎ (qašangi)	قشنگید‎ (qašangid) قشنگین‎ △ (qašangin)
3rd person (“he/she/it is, they are”)	قشنگ است‎ (qašang ast) قشنگه‎ △ (qašange)	قشنگند‎ (qašangand) قشنگن‎ △ (qašangan)
△ Colloquial.

Synonyms

• (beautiful): زیبا‎ (zibâ), خوشگل‎ (xošgel)

Related terms

• قشنگی‎ (qašangi)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: qəşəng
  • → Armenian: ղաշանգ (ġašang)
• → Khalaj: qəşəng
• → Urdu: قشنگ‎ (qašang)

Urdu

Etymology

From Classical Persian قشنگ‎ (qašang, “beautiful, lovely”), ultimately from Sogdian ʾγšnk- ((ə)xšank, “beautiful”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /qə.ʃənɡ/

Adjective

قَشَنْگ • (qaśaṅg) (Hindi spelling क़शंग)

1. attractive, good-looking; beautiful
2. pleasant, agreeable
3. excellent, superb

References

• “قشنگ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “قشنگ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.