کنج

See also: كنج

Persian

Etymology

Uncertain. Related to Sanskrit कुञ्चित (kuñcita, “curved, bent, crooked”), कुञ्चन (kuñcana, “contraction”), Old Armenian կնճիռն (knčiṙn, “knot”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ˈkund͡ʒ/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰʊnd͡ʒ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [kʰʊnd͡ʒ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [kʰund͡ʒ̥]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰond͡ʒ̥]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰund͡ʒ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	kunj
Dari reading^?	kunj
Iranian reading^?	konj
Tajik reading^?	kunj

Noun

کنج • (konj) (plural کنج‌ها)

corner

Descendants

→ Azerbaijani: künc
→ Armenian: քունջ (kʻunǰ)
→ Georgian: ქუნჯი (kunǯi)
→ Ottoman Turkish: كنج (künc)
- Gagauz: genç
- Turkish: genç
- → Crimean Tatar: genç
- → Middle Armenian: կէնճ (kēnč)
  - Armenian: կենճ (kenč), գ^յա̈նջ (g^yänǰ) — Van, dialectological notation, կանճ (kanč), կէնճ (kēnč) — traditional orthography

References

Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 255