شترگاوپلنگ
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Persian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- اشترگاوپلنگ (oštorgâvpalang), شترگاو (šotorgâv), اشترگاو (oštorgâv), گاوپلنگ (gâvpalang)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle Persian ʾwštlgʾwplng (uštar-gāw-palang, “giraffe”), compound of ʾwštl (uštar, “camel”) + gʾw (gāw, “ox, cow, bull”) + plng (palang, “leopard”). Also analyzable as شتر (šotor, “camel”) + گاو (gâv, “cow”) + پلنگ (palang, “leopard”).
Compare Old Armenian շտրպաղանգ (štrpałang), an Iranian borrowing. For the formation compare Ancient Greek καμηλοπάρδαλις (kamēlopárdalis), Old Armenian ընձուղտ (ənjułt), Classical Syriac ܓܡܠ ܢܡܪܐ (ɡmal-nemrā).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ʃu.tuɾ.ɡɑːw.pa.ˈlanɡ]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ʃo.t̪ʰoɹ.ɡɒːv.pʰæ.lǽɲɡʲ̥]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ʃu.t̪ʰuɾ.ɡɔw.pʰä.lǽŋɡ]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | šuturgāwpalang |
| Dari reading? | šuturgāwpalang |
| Iranian reading? | šotorgâvpalang |
| Tajik reading? | šuturgovpalang |
Noun
[edit]شترگاوپلنگ • (šotorgâvpalang) (plural شترگاوپلنگها (šotorgâvpalang-hâ) or شترگاوپلنگان (šotorgâvpalangân))
- (archaic) camelopard, giraffe
- anything composed of very disparate parts
- Mohammad Farrokhi Yazdi, Divan-e Robaiyat[1]
- از یک طرفی مجلس ما شیک و قشنگ - از یک طرفی عرصه به ملیون تنگ - قانون و حکومت نظامی و فشار - این است حکومت شتر گاو پلنگ
- On one hand, our Parliament is so classy and beautiful
on the other hand, a million people are living in dire conditions
Law, martial law, and pressure
A government consisted of very disparate parts becomes like this
- Mohammad Farrokhi Yazdi, Divan-e Robaiyat[1]
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[edit]References
[edit]- Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “شترگاوپلنگ”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “uštar”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 85