خرگاه

Persian

Alternative forms

• خرگه (xargah)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [xaɾ.ˈɡɑːh]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xäɾ.ɡɑ́ːʱ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xäɾ.ɡɑ́ːʱ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [xäɾ.ɡɑ́ː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [xäɾ.ɡɔ́ː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [xæɹ.ɡɒ́ːʰ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [χäɾ.ɡɔ́ʱ]

Readings
Classical reading?	xargāh
Dari reading?	xargāh
Iranian reading?	xargâh
Tajik reading?	xargoh

Noun

خرگاه • (xargâh)

1. tent, pavilion, tabernacle
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 329:

     روز شه در جستجو بی‌گاه شد / سوی آن کمپیر و آن خرگاه شد

     ruz-e šah dar jostoju bigâh šod / suy-e ân kampir o ân xargâh šod

     The King's day became late [far-spent] in searching [for the falcon]: he went (at last) to the old woman and the tent [where she lived].

2. wide, spacious place of residence

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: xərgah, xərgəh
• → Georgian: ხარგა (xarga)
• → Middle Armenian: խարգահ (xargah)
• →? Ottoman Turkish: چرگه (çerge), خرگاه (harga); չէրկէ (çerge)
  • Turkish: çerge
  • → Albanian: cergë
  • → Aromanian: čérgă
  • → Bulgarian: че́рга (čérga)
  • → Hungarian: cserge
  • → Macedonian: черга (čerga)
  • → Romani: cerha
  • → Romanian: cérgă
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: че̑рга

    Latin script: čȇrga

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “خر گاه”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 456
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “خرگه”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 456