قرقره

Persian

Spools

Etymology

Seems to be onomatopoeic or ideophonic.

Noun

Dari	قرقره
Iranian Persian
Tajik	чарх

قرقره • (qerqere) (plural قرقره‌ها (-qereqere-hâ))

1. spool, pulley
2. cooing (as a dove)
3. rumbling (as a belly)

Synonyms

• چرخ (čarx)
• چرخک (čarxak)

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “قرقره”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “قرقره”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press