سنگسار

Persian

Etymology

Henning suggests a possible Sogdian root, citing the Christian Sogdian phrase snqs'r bw - 'to be stoned', where the second element would be the Sogdian directional postposition -sār as seen in words like mrts'r 'hither', 'skys'r 'upward', etc., although qualifying that "it is difficult to say whether [it has] been borrowed either from Persian or Sogdian, or whether [it is] common inheritance in both languages."

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /sanɡ.ˈsaːɾ/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [säŋɡ.sɑ́ːɾ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [säŋɡ.sɑ́ːɾ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [säŋɡ.sɔ́ːɾ]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [sæɲɡʲ.sɒ́ːɹ]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [säŋɡ.sɔ́ɾ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	sangsār
Dari reading^?	sangsār
Iranian reading^?	sangsâr
Tajik reading^?	sangsor

Noun

سنگسار • (sangsâr)

stoning, lapidation

References

W.B. Henning, Sogdian Loan-words in New Persian, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 10, Issue 1, February 1940, p. 96