کلنگ

See also: كلنك

Persian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to beat, strike, break”). Compare کلند (koland).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ku.lanɡ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰʊ.läŋɡ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰʊ.läŋɡ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [kʰʊ.läŋɡ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [kʰu.läŋɡ̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰo.læɲɡʲ̥], [kʰo.loɲɡʲ̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰu.läŋɡ]

Readings
Classical reading?	kulang
Dari reading?	kulang
Iranian reading?	kolang, kolong
Tajik reading?	kulang

Noun

کلنگ • (kolang, kolong)

1. pickaxe

Derived terms

• خانه کلنگی (xâne-ye kolangi)

Descendants

• → Armenian: քլունգ (kʻlung, “pickaxe”)
• → Old Anatolian Turkish: كلنك (külünk, külüng, “pickaxe”) [since 13^th century]
  • Azerbaijani: külüng
  • Ottoman Turkish: كلنك (külünk), كولونك (külünk)
    • Turkish: külünk

Etymology 2

Middle Persian [script needed] (klng /⁠kulang⁠/), possibly a remnant of a formation from the Proto-Indo-European root *gerh₂-. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Cognate with Northern Kurdish quling, Northern Luri [script needed] (qołeńg, “قولٛنڳ”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ku.lanɡ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰʊ.läŋɡ], [kʰä.läŋɡ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰʊ.läŋɡ], [kʰä.läŋɡ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [kʰʊ.läŋɡ], [kʰä.läŋɡ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [kʰu.läŋɡ̥], [kʰä.läŋɡ̥]

Readings
Classical reading?	kulang
Dari reading?	kulang, kalang

Noun

Dari	کلنگ
Iranian Persian	درنا
Tajik	турна

کلنگ • (kalang) (plural کلنگ‌ها (kalang-hâ) or کلنگان (kalangân))

1. (Dari or archaic) crane (bird)

Derived terms

• کلنگ‌سانان (kolangsânân, “Gruiformes”)

Further reading

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “کلنگ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Bulkin, Carleton (2012) “کلنگ”, in Dari-English/English-Dari practical dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 292
• “کلنگ”, in قاموس کبیر افغانستان [qāmūs-i kabīr-i afğānistān, The Great Dictionary of Afghanistan] (in Persian), Afghan Dictionary, 2023