khangeri
Romani
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain. Probably inherited from a Sanskrit *घण्टागृ॒ह (*gháṇṭā́gṛhá), thus being a cognate of Hindi घंटाघर (ghaṇṭāghar, “bell tower”).
Alternatively, borrowed from Persian کنگره (kongore, “pinnacle, turret”). Compare Hindi कंगूरा (kaṅgūrā), itself borrowed from Persian.[1]
Attested by Vulcanius in 1593 spelled as Kangheri.
Noun
[edit]khangeri f (nominative plural khangerǎ)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Boretzky, Norbert; Igla, Birgit (1994), “khangirí(n)”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 156b
Further reading
[edit]- “Bulgaria - Romani - Language”, in Minority Languages in the European Union[1], 15 August 2001, archived from the original on 17 February 2012
- Marcel Courthiade (2009), “i/e khanger/i, -ǎ- ʒ. -ǎ, -ěn-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 212b
- Yūsuke Sumi (2018), “khanger/i, -ǎ”, in ニューエクスプレス ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, →ISBN, page 139