قشنگ

See also: فشنگ

Khalaj

Adjective

قَشَنگ (qəşəng)

  1. Arabic spelling of qəşəng (beautiful, pretty, handsome)

Persian

Etymology

From Sogdian ʾγšnk- ((ə)xšank, beautiful), related to Proto-Iranian *gr̥šáti (to rejoice, be happy).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? qašang
Dari reading? qašang
Iranian reading? ġašang
Tajik reading? qašang
  • (Hamadan) IPA(key): [ɢeˈʃæŋɡ]

Adjective

Dari قشنگ
Iranian Persian
Tajik қашанг

قَشَنْگ • (qašang) (comparative قَشَنْگ‌تَر, superlative قَشَنْگ‌تَرین)

  1. beautiful
    Synonyms: زیبا (zibâ), خوشگل (xošgel), خجیر (xojir)
  2. lovely
  3. pretty

Inflection

Predicative forms of قشنگ (qašang)
singular plural
1st person
(“I am, we are”)
قشنگم (qašangam) قشنگیم (qašangim)
2nd person
(“you are”)
قشنگی (qašangi) قشنگید، قشنگین (qašangid, qašangin)
3rd person
(“he/she/it is, they are”)
قشنگ است، قشنگه (qašang ast, qašange) قشنگند، قشنگن (qašangand, qašangan)

Colloquial.

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: qəşəng
    • Armenian: ղաշանգ (ġašang)
  • Khalaj: qəşəng
  • Turkish: kaşenk
  • Urdu: قَشَن٘گ (qaśaṅg)

References

  1. ^ Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2007) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 3, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 195

Urdu

Etymology

From Classical Persian قَشَنْگ (qašang, beautiful, lovely), ultimately from Sogdian ʾγšnk- ((ə)xšank, beautiful).

Pronunciation

Adjective

قَشَن٘گ • (qaśaṅg) (Hindi spelling क़शंग)

  1. attractive, good-looking; beautiful
  2. pleasant, agreeable
  3. excellent, superb

References

  • قشنگ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “قشنگ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.