زیجک

Persian

Alternative forms

  • زیچک (zičak)

Etymology

Unknown; presumably related to زویج (zevij, zavij), زونیج (zevanij), زونج (zevanj, “sausage”), compare also Central Kurdish زونگ (zung, “sausage”) and Northern Kurdish ziving (“cave, winter quarters”). Nişanyan argues a Turkic origin, see more in sucuk.[1]

Noun

زیجک • (zijak)[1]

  1. food made from animal intestines, sausages

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “زیجك”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
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