گربه

See also: گربہ, كربه, کربه, کرپه, کرته, and گربھ

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گربه

From Middle Persian [script needed] (gwlbk' /⁠gurbag⁠/, “cat”), from Proto-Iranian *wr̥pa-ka-,^[1] ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wl̥pís.^[2]^[3] Compare Lithuanian vilpišys (“wildcat”), Latin vulpes (“fox”). Perhaps anciently related to (rubâh, “fox”); see there for more.

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡʊɾ.bǽ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ɡʊɾ.bǽ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ɡuɾ.bǽ]

گُرْبِه • (gorbe) (plural گربه‌ها (gorbe-hâ) or گربگان (gorbegân))

cat
- c. 1060, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Safarnāma [Book of Travels]‎^[1]:
  و آن جا زنان را علتی می‌افتد به اوقات که چون مصروعی دو سه بار بانگ کنند و باز به هوش آیند و در خراسان شنیده بودم که جزیره‌ای است که زنان آن جا چون گربگان به فریاد می‌آیند و آن بر این گونه است که ذکر رفت.
  w-ān jā zanān rā ilatē mē-uftad ba awqāt ki čōn masrū'ē du si bār bāng kunand u bāz ba hōš āyand u dar xurāsān šunīda būdam ki jazīra'ē ast ki zanān ān jā čōn gurbagān ba faryād mē-āyand u ān bar īn gōna ast ki zikr raft.
  And there, a disease comes upon women from time to time so that they cry out like an epileptic two or three times, then return to sanity again. And in Khurasan, I had heard that there is an island whose women scream like cats. That is the same sort of thing as what has been mentioned.

^ Cathcart, Chundra A. (2022) “Dialectal layers in West Iranian: a Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Approach to Linguistic Relationships”, in Transactions of the Philological Society, volume 12, number 1, →DOI
^ De Vann, Michiel (2000) “The Indo-Iranian animal suffix *-āćá-”, in Indo-Iranian Journal, volume 43, number 3, →DOI
^ Holopainen, Sampsa (2019) Indo-Iranian Borrowings in Uralic: Critical overview of the sound substitutions and distribution criterion, University of Helsinki (PhD)