گنگ
Persian
Etymology 1
Perhaps developed from the sense “to mock, hum”. Usually connected to Sanskrit गुञ्जति (guñjati, “buzz, hum”).
Noun
Dari | گنگ |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | гунг |
گنگ • (gong)
- mute, a person unable to speak
Adjective
گنگ • (gong)
Descendants
- → Old Anatolian Turkish: [Term?] (“conduit”)
Etymology 2
Noun
گنگ • (gang)
Etymology 3
Proper noun
گنگ • (gang)
- the river Ganges
- (obsolete) Tashkent
- (obsolete) Jerusalem
- (historical) the name of a certain mythological city fully گنگ دژ, گنگ دز, or گنگ بهشت
References
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “گنگ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
- Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 137
- Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “گنگ”, 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 II, Gießen: J. Ricker, pages 1037–1038