ایاغ

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkic. Compare Ottoman Turkish آیاغ (ayag, “drinking cup”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔa.ˈjaːɣ/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.jɑ́ːɣ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔä.jɑ́ːɣ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔä.jɔ́ːɣ]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔæ.jɒ́ːɢ̥]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.jɔ́ʁ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	ayāġ
Dari reading^?	ayāġ
Iranian reading^?	ayâġ
Tajik reading^?	ayoġ

Noun

ایاغ • (ayâġ)

(archaic) drinking-cup
- c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 295”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[1]:
  یکی چو باده پرستان صراحی اندر دست
  یکی چو ساقی مستان به کف گرفته ایاغ
  yakē čū bāda parastān surāhī andar dast
  yakē čū sāqī-yi mastān ba kaff girifta ayāġ
  One like the worshipers of wine, a flask in his hand;
  Another like the cupbearer of the drunken, his palm holding a drinking-cup
  (Classical Persian transliteration)