کج

See also: گج, گچ, and کخ

Persian

Alternative forms

• کژ (kaž)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”). Related to چنگ (čang). Cognate with English hook.

Pronunciation

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

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰäd͡ʒ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰäd͡ʒ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [kʰäd͡ʒ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [kʰäd͡ʒ̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰʲæd͡ʒ̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰäd͡ʒ]

Readings
Classical reading?	kaj
Dari reading?	kaj
Iranian reading?	kaj
Tajik reading?	kaj

Adjective

کج • (kaj)

1. crooked

References

• 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