قارچ

Persian

Etymology

Compare Central Kurdish قارچک (qarçik). It is not attested in Classical dictionaries. It must be a later formation with suffix -č like نمچ (namç, “humidity, moisture”): the base γ/qār- can be recognized in ﻏﺎری (ğâri, “sponge”), with -ī < -īk, being derived from Proto-Iranian *garH- (“soak, steep, moisten”). It displaced سماروغ (samâruğ) in contemporary Iran after a poriferal signification became fungal.[1]

Pronunciation

Readings
Iranian reading? ğârč
Tajik reading? qorč

Noun
Dari سماروغ
Iranian Persian قارچ
Tajik қорч

قارْچ • (qârč) (plural قارچ‌ها (qârč-hâ))

  1. mushroom
  2. fungus

References
  1. Asatrian, Garnik (2020) “Classical New Persian samārō/ūγ ‘mushroom’”, in Iran & the Caucasus‎, volume 24, number 4, →DOI, pages 419–422
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