درنگ

Persian

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian dlng' (drang, “period, duration”), from Old Persian, from Proto-Iranian *drangah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *drangʰas, from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos (“long”), see there for cognates.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [di.ɾanɡ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɪ.ɾäŋɡ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɪ.ɾäŋɡ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪ɪ.ɾäŋɡ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪i.ɾäŋɡ̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪e.ɹæɲɡʲ̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪i.ɾäŋɡ]

Readings
Classical reading?	dirang
Dari reading?	dirang
Iranian reading?	derang
Tajik reading?	dirang

Noun

Dari	درنگ
Iranian Persian
Tajik	диранг

درنگ • (derang) (plural درنگ‌ها (derang-hâ))

1. delay

   Synonyms: دیرکرد (dêrkard, dirkard), تأخیر (ta'xir)

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 2736:

     سالم از دزدان و از آسیب سنگ
     برد تا دار الخلافه بی‌درنگ

     sālim az duzdān u az āsēb-i-sang
     burd tā dāru l-xilāfa bē-dirang

     He bore it without delay, safe from robbers and unhurt by stones, to the seat of the Caliphate (the Caliph's palace).

     (Classical Persian romanization)

2. hesitation, hesitancy
3. postponement
4. slowness

Derived terms

• درنگ کردن (darang kardan, “to delay, to hesitate”)
• درنگ‌نما (derangnamâ, “comma”)

 

Descendants

• → Bengali: দেরেঙ্গ (dereṅgo)