کج
Persian
editAlternative forms
edit- کژ (kaž)
Etymology
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”). Related to چنگ (čang). Cognate with English hook.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [kad͡ʒ]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [kʰʲæd͡ʒ̥]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [kʰäd͡ʒ]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | kaj |
Dari reading? | kaj |
Iranian reading? | kaj |
Tajik reading? | kaj |
Adjective
editکج • (kaj)
References
edit- Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “کج”, 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 II, Gießen: J. Ricker, pages 798b–800a
- Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 217