پرغنگ
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Brahui
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Dravidian [Term?]. Cognate with Tamil பிரி (piri, “to separate, part”).[1]
Verb
[edit]پِرْغِنْگ (pirġiṅg)
- to break
- to rend
- to defeat
- to break into, burgle
- to transgress, disobey (orders, etc.)
- to solve (a riddle)
- to break in, discipline
- to shed (one's first teeth)
- to wink (one's eye)
- to droop in death (of the eye)
- to twist (especially a rope)
Related terms
[edit]- پِنِّنْگ (pinniṅg, “to be broken”)
References
[edit]- ^ Burrow, T., Emeneau, M. B. (1984) “4176”, in A Dravidian etymological dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
Further reading
[edit]- Bray, Denys (1934) “pirghing”, in The Brahui Language[1], Calcutta, India: Superintendent Government Printing, Part II: The Brāhūī Problem; Part III: Etymological Vocabulary, page 238
- Ali, Liaquat, Kobayashi, Masato (2024) “pirɣ-ing”, in Brahui Texts: Glossed and Translated Short Stories and Folktales[2], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, page 721