مرغ

• IPA^(key): /mraɣ/

مرغ • (mrağ) m

1. a weight used in bodybuilding
2. a large stone at just the weight that a man can lift, and used in the game or exercise of putting the stone

• Raverty, H. G. (1867) “مرغ”, in A dictionary of the Puk'hto, Pus'hto, or language of the Afghans: with remarks on the originality of the language, and its affinity to other oriental tongues, London: Williams & Nortgate
• Pashto English Dictionary

From Middle Iranian *murγ (“bird”) from Proto-Iranian *mr̥gáh (“bird”). Compare Middle Persian [script needed] (mwlw' /⁠murw⁠/), Parthian [Manichaean needed] (mwrg /⁠murγ⁠/), Avestan 𐬨𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬖𐬀 (mər^əγa), Pashto مرغه (mërğë), Ossetian маргъ (marǧ), Baluchi مرگ (murg), Old Armenian սիրամարգ (siramarg) and լորամարգ (loramarg).

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مرغ • (morğ) (plural مرغ‌ها (morğ-hâ) or مرغان (morğân))

1. (archaic) bird
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3412:

     کاتب آن وحی ز آن آواز مرغ
     برده ظنی کاو بود همباز مرغ

     kâtib-i-ân wahî za ân âvâz-i-murğ
     burda zanni kô buwad hambâz-i-murg

     The writer of the Revelation, from (hearing) the Bird's voice,
     supposed that he was the Bird's equal

2. hen

• مرغابی (morğâbi)
• تخم مرغ (toxm-e morğ)
• مرغ مگس‌خوار (morğ-e magas-xâr)
• شترمرغ (šotormorğ)

• سیمرغ (simorğ)

• → Azerbaijani: mürğ
• → Chagatai: مرغ
  • Uzbek: murgʻ
• → Ottoman Turkish: مرغ (mürg)
  • Turkish: murg
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਮੁਰਗ (murag)

  Shahmukhi script: مرغ (murġ)