گرگ

from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebh₂- (“to grab, seize”). Cognates include Persian گرفتن (gereftan), Central Kurdish گرتن (girtin), Sanskrit गृह्णाति (gṛhṇāti, “he seizes”).

گرگ • (girag)

1. to grab
2. to grip
3. to take
4. to get
5. to catch
6. to hold
7. to seize
8. to receive

From Middle Persian 𐭢𐭥𐭫𐭢 (gʿlg /⁠gurg⁠/, “wolf”), from Old Persian 𐎺𐎼𐎣 (v-r-k /⁠varka-⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *wŕ̥kah (compare Avestan 𐬬𐬆𐬵𐬭𐬐𐬀 (vəhrka), Sogdian [script needed] (wyrk- /⁠wərk⁠/), Baluchi گرک (gurk), Mazanderani ورگ (verg), Northern Kurdish gur, gurg, Ossetian бирӕгъ (biræǧ)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wŕ̥kas (“wolf”) (compare Sanskrit वृक (vṛ́ka)), from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos (compare English wolf).

گرگ • (gorg) (plural گرگ‌ها (gorg-hâ) or گرگان (gorgân))

1. a wolf
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3109:

     از کجا آموختی این ای بزرگ / گفت ای شاه جهان از حال گرگ

     az kujâ âmôxti ên ay buzurg / guft ay šâh-i-jahân az hâl-i-gurg

     Whence didst thou learn this, O eminent one?” “O King of the world,” he replied, “from the fate of the wolf.”

2. (figurative) a social or sexual predator

   اون بیرون پر گرگه! ― un birun por-e gorg-e! ― There are lots of predators out there!

• گرگان (gorgân)
• گرجستان (gorjestân)

Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “گرگ”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press