سگ
Persian
سگ
Etymology
From Middle Persian sag, from Old Persian *𐏂𐎣 (*çaka-) (compare an Iranian denotation of the dog *spaka-, Old Median σπάκα, Northern Kurdish se, seg, and Old Armenian ասպակ (aspak, “dog”), from Middle Median *aspak), from Proto-Iranian *cwā́ (compare Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬁 (spā)), Pashto سپی (spëy)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćwā́ (compare Sanskrit श्वन् (śvā́)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [saɡ]
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [säɡ]
- (Kabuli) IPA(key): [säɡ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [säɡ̥]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [sæɡʲ̥]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [säɡ]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | sag |
| Dari reading? | sag |
| Iranian reading? | sag |
| Tajik reading? | sag |
Audio (IR) (file)
Noun
| Dari | سگ |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | саг |
سَگ • (sag) (plural سگها (sag-hâ) or سگان (sagân))
- dog
- سگ من تندتر از سگ تو میدوه.
- sag-e man tond-tar az sag-e to mi-dave.
- My dog runs faster than yours.
Derived terms
- سگی (sagi)
- تولهسگ (tule-sag)
References
- Perixanjan, A. G. (1993) Материалы к этимологическому словарю древнеармянского языка. Часть I [Materials for the Etymological Dictionary of the Old Armenian Language. Part 1] (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 20
- D. N. MacKenzie (1971) A Concise Pahlavi Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 73; Reprinted with corrections 1986.
Urdu
سَگ
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian سگ (sag, “dog”).
Cognate with Kashmiri ہوٗن (hūn), Kalasha شوںہ (šọ̃́a) and Shina شُن (śun)۔
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /səɡ/
Derived terms
- سَگ بَچَّہ (sag-bacca, “puppy”)
- سَگِ غَرْچَہ (sag-e-ġarca, “wild dog”)
- سَگِ دِیوانَہ (sag-e-dīvāna, “mad dog”)
- سَگ زادَہ (sag-zāda)
- سَگِ دَر (sag-e-dar, “servant; lover”)
- سَگِ تَازی (sag-e-tāzī, “hunting dog”, literally “Tajiki dog”)
- سَگِ دُنیا (sag-e-duniyā, “selfish person”, literally “dog of the world”)
- سَگِ بازاری (sag-e-bāzārī, “street dog; cur, mongrel”)
- سَگِ شِکاری (sag-e-śikārī, “hunting dog”)
References
- “سگ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سگ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John Thompson (1884) “سگ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
- “سگ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
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