چنگی

See also: چنكی

Persian

Etymology

From چنگ (čang) +‎ ـی (-i).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃan.ˈɡiː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰäŋ.ɡíː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰäŋ.ɡíː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰäŋ.ɡíː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰäŋ.ɡí]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰæɲ.ɡʲíː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰäŋ.ɡí]

Readings
Classical reading?	čangī
Dari reading?	čangī
Iranian reading?	čangi
Tajik reading?	čangi

Noun

Dari	چنگی
Iranian Persian
Tajik	чангӣ

چنگی • (čangi)

1. harper, lutanist
2. public dancer

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: چنگی (çengi)
  • Turkish: çengi
  • → Albanian: çengi
  • → Aromanian: cinghíe
  • → Bulgarian: чинги́я (čingíja)
  • → Macedonian: ченгија (čengija)
  • → Romanian: cinghíe
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: чѐнгија

    Latin script: čèngija

Further reading

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “چنگی”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Vullers, Johann August (1855) “چنگی”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 596a