برگ

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰárati.

برگ • (barag) (past stem برت (burt))

1. to bear
2. to carry
3. to take
4. to take away

• IPA^(key): /bɜːrɡ/

برگ (berg)

1. mountain

• کوه‌وبرگ (kuhoberg)

• بلگ (balg) (archaic, dialectal)
• بلک (balk) (Hazaragi)

Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (wlg /⁠warg⁠/, “leaf”) (whence Early New Persian بلگ (balg)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *warkás ~ *walkás. Cognate with Younger Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬐𐬀 (var^əka), Sanskrit वल्क (valka, “bark of a tree”).

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برگ • (barg) (plural برگ‌ها)

1. leaf

   برگ زرد و خراب

   barg-e zard va xarâb

   yellow, wilted leaf

   برگ سبزی است تحفه درویش.

   barg-e sabzi ast tohfe-ye darviš.

   A green leaf is a poor man's gift.

   (Persian proverb about poverty)

   • c. 1011, Abu'l-Qāsim Firdawsī, “The tale of Kay Qubād”, in شاهنامه [Book of Kings]‎^[1]:

     چو دانست کامد به نزدیک مرگ
     بپژمرد خواهد همی سبز برگ

     čū dānist k-āmad ba nazdīk marg
     bipižmurd xwāhad hamē sabz barg

     When it knows that death has come near,
     The green leaf will wither away.

2. petal

   برگ گل رز ― barg-e gol-e roz ― rose petal

3. sheet, folio
4. tools, utensils, means
   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 256:

     برون آمد ز خرگه یار برگ جنگ بربسته
     بقصد خون صد همچون من مسکین کمر بسته

     birōn āmad zi xargah yār barg-i jang barbasta
     ba-qasd-i xūn-i sad hamčūn man-i miskīn kamar basta

     The beloved has left the tent, having put on his weapons of war;
     He has girdled his loins in search of the blood of a hundred wretches like me.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

5. intention, desire
   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 160:

     یار گر گوید که جان ده یا برو از کوی من
     عاشق آن باشد که اول برگ جان دادن کند

     yār gar gōyad ki jān dih yā biraw az kō-yi man
     āšiq ān bāšad ki awwal barg-i jān dādan kunad

     If the beloved says "Give up your life or leave my alley!"
     The lover is the one who first intends to give up his life.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

6. wealth

• → Urdu: برگ (barg)

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “warg”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press

برگ (borg)

1. (Masarm, Deh Sarv) eyebrow