داج

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic دَاجٍ (dājin).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ˈdaːd͡ʒ/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɑːd͡ʒ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪ɑːd͡ʒ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪ɔːd͡ʒ̥]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɒːd͡ʒ̥]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɔd͡ʒ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	dāj
Dari reading^?	dāj
Iranian reading^?	dâj
Tajik reading^?	doj

Noun

داج • (dâj)

darkness, obscurity; dark night
Synonyms: تاریکی (târiki), ظلمت (zolmat)
- c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 97”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[1]:
  بیاض روی تو روشن چو عارض رخ روز
  سواد زلف سیاه تو هست ظلمت داج
  bayāz-i rō-yi tu rōšan čū āriz-i rux-i rōz
  sawād-i zulf-i siyāh-i tu hast zulmat-i dāj
  The whiteness of your face is bright like the cheeks of the face of day,
  The blackness of your sable locks is the darkness of obscure night.
  (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “داج”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Punjabi

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit दायाद्य n (dāyādya, “inheritance”).

Pronunciation

(Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /d̪äː.d͡ʒə̆/

Noun

داج • (dāj) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਦਾਜ)

dowry, trousseau
Synonym: جَہیز (jahez)

Declension

Declension of **داج**
	singular	plural
direct	داج (dāj)	داج (dāj)
oblique	داج (dāj)	داجاں (dājāṉ)
vocative	داجا (dājā)	داجو (dājo)
ablative	داجوں (dājoṉ)	داجاں (dājāṉ)
locative	داجے (dāje)	داجِیں (dājīṉ)
instrumental	داجوں (dājoṉ)	–

References

“داج”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025
Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “داج”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz