خنگ

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Persian

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Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? xing
Dari reading? xing
Iranian reading? xeng
Tajik reading? xing

Etymology 1

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From Proto-Indo-European *ḱanḱest-, *kankest- (horse). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *hangistaz, and thereby with German Hengst.

Noun

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خنگ (xeng)

  1. horse
  2. white horse
  3. gray horse
Synonyms
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Etymology 2

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Adjective

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خنگ (xeng)

  1. dumb, stupid
Descendants
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  • Armenian: խենգ (xeng)
  • Azerbaijani: xing

Further reading

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  • Lazard, Gilbert (1990) “خنگ”, in Dictionnaire persan-français, page 165b
  • Vullers, Johann August (1855) “خنگ”, 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, page 729a