درنگ

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian dlng' (drang, “period, duration”), from Old Persian, from Proto-Iranian *drangah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *drangʰas, from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos (“long”), see there for cognates.

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /di.ˈɾanɡ/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɪ.ɾäŋɡ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪ɪ.ɾäŋɡ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪i.ɾäŋɡ̥]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪e.ɹæɲɡʲ̥]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪i.ɾäŋɡ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	dirang
Dari reading^?	dirang
Iranian reading^?	derang
Tajik reading^?	dirang

Noun


Iranian Persian	درنگ
Dari	درنگ
Tajik	диранг

درنگ • (derang) (plural درنگ‌ها)

delay
Synonyms: دیرکرد (dêrkard, dirkard), تأخیر (ta'xir)
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 2736:
  سالم از دزدان و از آسیب سنگ
  برد تا دار الخلافه بی‌درنگ
  sālim az duzdān u az āsēb-i-sang
  burd tā dāru l-xilāfa bē-dirang
  He bore it without delay, safe from robbers and unhurt by stones, to the seat of the Caliphate (the Caliph's palace).
  (Classical Persian romanization)
hesitation, hesitancy
postponement
slowness

Derived terms

درنگ کردن (darang kardan, “to delay, to hesitate”)
درنگ‌نما (derangnamâ, “comma”)

Descendants

→ Bengali: দেরেঙ্গ (dereṅgo)