خنگ

See also: خنک, چنگ, حنك, جنک, جنگ, جنك, and جنګ

Persian

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? xing
Dari reading? xing
Iranian reading? xeng
Tajik reading? xing

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱanḱest-, *kankest- (“horse”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *hangistaz, and thereby with German Hengst. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Noun

خنگ • (xeng)

  1. horse
    Synonym: اسب (asb)
  2. white horse
    Synonyms: چرمه (čarme), الوس (alus)
  3. gray horse

Etymology 2

Adjective

خنگ • (xeng)

  1. dumb, stupid
Descendants
  • → Armenian: խենգ (xeng)
  • → Azerbaijani: xing

Further reading

  • Lazard, Gilbert (1990) “خنگ”, in Dictionnaire persan-français, page 165b
  • Vullers, Johann August (1855) “خنگ”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎[1] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 729a
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