خنگ

See also: خنک, چنگ, حنك, جنک, جنگ, جنك, and جنګ

Persian

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [xinɡ]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xɪŋɡ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [xɪŋɡ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [xiŋɡ̥]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [xeɲɡʲ̥]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [χiŋɡ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	xing
Dari reading^?	xing
Iranian reading^?	xeng
Tajik reading^?	xing

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱanḱest-, *kankest- (“horse”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *hangistaz.

Noun

خنگ • (xeng)

Synonyms

چرمه (čarme)
الوس (alus)

Adjective

خنگ • (xeng)

dumb, stupid

Descendants

→ Armenian: խենգ (xeng)
→ Azerbaijani: xing

Further reading

Lazard, Gilbert (1990) “خنگ”, in Dictionnaire persan-français, page 165b
Vullers, Johann August (1855) “خنگ”, 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 (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 729a

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