گنگ

See also: کنگ, کبک, کپک, کپگ, كنك, and کنک

Persian

Etymology 1

Perhaps developed from the sense “to mock, hum”. Usually connected to Sanskrit गुञ्जति (guñjati, “buzz, hum”).

Pronunciation
 

Readings
Classical reading? gung
Dari reading? gung
Iranian reading? gong
Tajik reading? gung

Noun
Dari گنگ
Iranian Persian
Tajik гунг

گنگ • (gong)

  1. mute, a person unable to speak

Adjective

گنگ • (gong)

  1. (obsolete) crooked, hurled, of a bent back
  2. mute, a person unable to speak
Descendants
  • → Old Anatolian Turkish: [Term?] (“conduit”)
    • Azerbaijani: küng
      • → Armenian: քունգ (kʻung)
    • Ottoman Turkish: كنك (künk)
      • Turkish: künk
      • → Albanian: qynke, çungu
      • → Armenian: քիւնկ (kʻiwnk)
      • → Aromanian: ciunge, ciungu
      • → Bulgarian: кюнк (kjunk), кю́нец (kjúnec)
      • → Greek: κιούγκι (kioúgki)
      • → Macedonian: ќунк (ḱunk)
      • → Serbo-Croatian:
        Cyrillic script: ћу̏нак, чу̏нак
        Latin script: ćȕnak, čȕnak
  • → Turkmen: güň (mute and deaf at same time)

Noun

گنگ • (gang)

  1. (obsolete) island

Proper noun

گنگ • (gang)

  1. the river Ganges
  2. (obsolete) Tashkent
    Synonyms: تاشکند (tâškand), چاچ (čâč)
  3. (obsolete) Jerusalem
  4. (historical) the name of a certain mythological city fully گنگ دژ, گنگ دز, or گنگ بهشت

References
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “گنگ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  • Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 137
  • Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “گنگ”, 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 II, Gießen: J. Ricker, pages 1037–1038
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