کج

See also: گج, گچ, and کخ

Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”). Related to چنگ (čang). Cognate with English hook.

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? kaj
Dari reading? kaj
Iranian reading? kaj
Tajik reading? kaj

Adjective

کج • (kaj)

  1. crooked

References

  • Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “کج”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎[1] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, pages 798b–800a
  • Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 217
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