لاغر
Khalaj
Adjective
لاغَر (lâğər)
Persian
Etymology
From Middle Persian *lāgar, from Old Persian *lagrah, from Proto-Iranian *Hlagráh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hlagʰrás, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ln̥gʷʰrós (“lightweight”).[1][2] Cognate with Northern Kurdish lawaz, Gurani لاواز (lāwāz).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /laː.ˈɣaɾ/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [lɑː.ɣäɾ]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [lɒː.ɢæɹ]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [lɔ.ʁäɾ]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | lāġar |
| Dari reading? | lāġar |
| Iranian reading? | lâġar |
| Tajik reading? | loġar |
Adjective
| Dari | لاغر |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | лоғар |
لاغَر • (lâġar) (comparative لاغَرتَر, superlative لاغَرتَرین)
- skinny; thin; slender; lithe
- Antonym: چاق (čâq, “fat”)
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume V, verse 3629:
- که طمع لاغر کند زرد و ذلیل / نیست او از علت ابدان علیل
- ke tama' lâġar konad zard o zalil / nist u az 'ellat-e abdân 'alil
- For [mere] hope makes him lean, pale, and wretched: he is not ill with bodily ailment.
- published 1973, فروغ فرخزاد [Forugh Farrokhzad], translated by Hasan Javadi and Susan Sallée (in Another Birth: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad), ایمان بیاوریم به آغاز فصل سرد[2]:
- و من به جفت‌گیری گل‌ها می‌اندیشم / به غنچه‌هایی با ساقه‌های لاغر کم خون
- va man be joft-giri-ye gol-hâ mi-andišam / be ġonče-hâ-yi bâ sâqe-hâ-ye lâġar-e kam-xun
- and I think of the pollination of the flowers / of the buds with thin anemic stems
Inflection
| bare | لاغر (lâġar) |
|---|---|
| ezâfe | لاغر (lâġar-e) |
| marked indefinite or relative definite |
لاغری (lâġar-i) |
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person (“I am, we are”) |
لاغرم (lâġaram) | لاغریم (lâġarim) |
| 2nd person (“you are”) |
لاغری (lâġari) | لاغرید، لاغرین△ (lâġarid, lâġarin△) |
| 3rd person (“he/she/it is, they are”) |
لاغر است، لاغره△ (lâġar ast, lâġare△) | لاغرند، لاغرن△ (lâġarand, lâġaran△) |
△ Colloquial.
Derived terms
(verbs)
- لاغر شدن (lâġar šodan)
- لاغر کردن (lâgar kardan)
(other)
- لاغری (lâġari)
Descendants
- → Middle Armenian: լաղար (laġar)
- Armenian: լղար (lġar)
- → Azerbaijani: lağər
- → Central Kurdish: له‌ڕ (lerr)
- → Northern Luri: لںڕ (łərr)
- → Khalaj: lâğər
- → Northern Kurdish: lexer
- → Ottoman Turkish: لاغر (lağar)
- Turkish: lagar
References
- ^ Mann, Stuart E. (1984–1987) “ln̥gu̯hros”, in An Indo-European Comparative Dictionary[1], Hamburg: Buske, column 700
- ^ Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 275