داغ

Azerbaijani

Noun

داغ

1. Arabic spelling of dağ (“mountain”)

Declension

Declension of داغ

	singular	plural
nominative	داغ	داغلار
definite accusative	داغێ	داغلارێ
dative	داغا	داغلارا
locative	داغدا	داغلاردا
ablative	داغدان	داغلاردان
definite genitive	داغێن	داغلارێن

Karakhanid

Alternative forms

• ذاغْ

Adverb

داغ (dāg)

1. (Arghu) not

Descendants

• Khalaj: dâğ

References

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume III, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 153

Khalaj

Adverb

داغ (dâğ)

1. Arabic spelling of dâğ (“not”)

Notes

• Attested as دق in Ölmez

References

• Ölmez, Mehmet. (1995) "Halaçlar ve Halaçça" [Khalajs and Khalaj language] Çağdaş Türk Dili, Ankara, 84, p. 22.

Ottoman Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dɑɣ], [dɑː]
• (Western Rumelia) IPA^(key): [dɑɡ]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *tāg.

Noun

داغ • (dağ)

1. mountain

Alternative forms

• طاغ (dağ)

Descendants

• Gagauz: daa (“forest”)
• Turkish: dağ
• → Bulgarian: даг (dag) (dialectal)
• → Laz: დაღი (daği)

Etymology 2

From Persian داغ (dâğ).

Noun

داغ • (dağ)

1. sear, mark left by cauterization or etching, brand
2. (figurative) grief, pang, chagrin

Derived terms

• داغلامق (dağlamak, “to brand; to cauterize”)

Descendants

• Turkish: dağ

Persian

Dari	داغ
Iranian Persian
Tajik	доғ

Etymology

Cognate with Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬖𐬀 (daγa, “brand; scar, spot”), Sanskrit दाह (dāha, “burning, heat”). Related to Middle Persian [script needed] (dcytn' /⁠dazīdan⁠/, “to burn”), from Proto-Iranian *dáǰatī, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰáǰʰati, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰégʷʰeti.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [dɑːɣ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɑːɣ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɑːɣ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪ɑːɣ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪ɔːɣ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɒːɢ̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɔʁ]

Readings
Classical reading?	dāğ
Dari reading?	dāğ
Iranian reading?	dâğ
Tajik reading?	doġ

Adjective

داغ • (dâğ) (comparative داغ‌تَر (dâğ-tar), superlative داغ‌تَرین (dâğ-tarin))

1. hot

   .چای داغ است

   čây dâğ ast.

   Tea is hot.

Adverb

داغ • (dâğ)

1. exciting

   برایت خبری داغ دارم.

   barâyat xabari dâğ dâram.

   I have an exciting news for you.

Noun

داغ • (dâğ)

1. sear, mark left by cauterization or etching, brand
2. (transferred) mark, stain, blemish, scar, dark spot

   Hypernym: نشان (nešân)

3. branding iron

Descendants

• → Armenian: դաղ (daġ)
• → Assamese: দাগ (dag)
• → Azerbaijani: dağ
• → Bengali: দাগ (dag)
• → Georgian: დაღი (daɣi)
• → Gujarati: ડાઘો (ḍāgho)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: दाग़ (dāġ)

  Urdu: داغ (dāġ)

• → Maithili:

  Devanagari script: दाग (dāg)

  Tirhuta script: 𑒠𑒰𑒑 (dāga)

• → Old Marathi: ḍāga

  Devanagari script: डाग

  Modi script: 𑘚𑘰𑘐

  • Marathi: डाग (ḍāg)
• → Ottoman Turkish: داغ (dağ)
• → Odia: ଦାଗ (dāga)
• → Old Punjabi: ਦਾਗੁ (dāgu)
  • Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script: ਦਾਗ਼ (dāġ)

    Shahmukhi script: داغ (dāġ)

Further reading

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “داغ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Vullers, Johann August (1855) “داغ”, 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^[1] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, pages 792–793

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian داغ (dāğ).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑːɣ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɣ

Noun

داغ • (dāġ) m (Hindi spelling दाग़)

1. a stain, spot

Further reading

• “داغ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “داغ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “داغ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “داغ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.