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آغوش

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Persian

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Etymology

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From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾkwš /⁠āgōš⁠/, embrace) or Middle Persian 𐫀𐫀𐫇𐫢 (ʾʾwš, armful), which go back to different Old Iranian forms, the former with */k/ and the latter with */g/; the two may have merged in New Persian.[1] Compare Mazanderani کشه (kaše), Sogdian [script needed] (qwš(y) /⁠kōš, kuši, kuše⁠/), Sarikoli maɣɛwl (in an embrace).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? āğōš
Dari reading? āğōš
Iranian reading? âğuš
Tajik reading? oġüš

Noun

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Dari آغوش
Iranian Persian
Tajik оғӯш

آغوش (âğuš)

  1. embrace; arms
    • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 15”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎[1]:
      خوابم بشد از دیده در این فکر جگرسوز
      کآغوش که شد منزل آسایش و خوابت؟
      xwāb-am bišud az dīda dar īn fikr-i jigarsōz
      k-āğōš-i ki šud manzil-i āsāyiš u xwāb-at
      Sleep left my eyes because of this heart-burning thought—
      Whose embrace will be the place for your rest and sleep?
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
  2. armful

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Azerbaijani: ağuş
  • Gujarati: આગોશ (āgoś)
  • Hindustani:
    Hindi: आग़ोश (āġoś)
    Urdu: آغوش (āġoś)
  • Turkish: aguş

References

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  1. ^ Sims-Williams, Nicholas (1979) “A Pakthian sound-change”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, volume 42, number 1

Further reading

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Urdu

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Urdu Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian آغوش (āğōš), from Middle Persian [script needed] (ʾkwš /⁠āgōš⁠/, embrace).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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آغوش (āġośf (Hindi spelling आग़ोश)

  1. embrace
    Synonym: (rare) آلِنگَن (āliṅgan)

Further reading

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