زرگر

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (zlykl /⁠zarr(ī)gar⁠/, “goldsmith”). By surface analysis, (zarr, “gold”) +‎ (-gar, “-er”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /zaɾ.ˈɡaɾ/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [zäɾ.ɡǽɾ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [zäɾ.ɡǽɾ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [zäɾ.ɡǽɾ]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [zæɹ.ɡʲǽɹ]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [zäɾ.ɡǽɾ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	zargar
Dari reading^?	zargar
Iranian reading^?	zargar
Tajik reading^?	zargar

Noun


Iranian Persian	زرگر
Dari	زرگر
Tajik	заргар

زرگر • (zargar) (plural زرگرها, or زرگران)

goldsmith
Synonyms: طلاساز (talâsâz), زرساز (zarsâz)
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 168:
  نبض جست و روی سرخ و زرد شد
  کز سمرقندی زرگر فرد شد
  nabz just u rōy surx u zard šud
  k-az samarqandī zargar fard šud
  Her pulse jumped and her face went red and pale, for she had been parted from a man of Samarcand, a goldsmith.

Derived terms

جنگ زرگری (jang-e zargari)
زرگری (zargari)

Descendants

→ Armenian: զարգար (zargar)
→ Azerbaijani: zərgər
→ Hindustani:
Hindi: ज़रगर (zargar)

Urdu: زرگر (zargar)
→ Uzbek: zargar
→ Kazakh: зергер (zerger)

References

Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “زرگر”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “zarr”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press