پرگار

• پرگال (pargâl)

From Proto-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-Iranian. Cognate with Sogdian [script needed] (prγrs’y /⁠parγarsē⁠/, “round, oval”), Northern Kurdish pergal (“mode, system, order”), Sanskrit प्रकार (prakāra, “sort, kind, form, nature, way, mode, manner”). The first element is from Proto-Iranian *pari- (“around”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“before, front”).

پَرْگار • (pargâr) (plural پرگارها)

1. pair of compasses
   • 11th century, Abū Saʿīd Abī-l-Khayr, Rubāʿī attributed to Abū Saʿīd Abī-l-Khayr‎^[1]:

     جانا من و تو نمونهٔ پرگاریم
     سر گرچه دو کرده‌ایم یک تن داریم

     jānā man u tō namūna-yi pargār-ēm
     sar garči du karda'ēm yak tan dārēm

     My love, you and I are akin to a pair of compasses;
     Though we are of two heads/ends, we have one body.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “پرگار”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press