پرگار

See also: پرکار and پركار

Persian

Alternative forms

• پرگال (pargâl)

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-Iranian. Cognate with Sogdian [script needed] (prγrs’y /⁠parγarsē⁠/, “round, oval”), Northern Kurdish pergal (“mode, system, order”), Sanskrit प्रकार (prakāra, “sort, kind, form, nature, way, mode, manner”). The first element is from Proto-Iranian *pari- (“around”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“before, front”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [paɾ.ˈɡɑːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäɾ.ɡɑ́ːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäɾ.ɡɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰäɾ.ɡɑ́ːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰäɾ.ɡɔ́ːɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰæɹ.ɡɒ́ːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäɾ.ɡɔ́ɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	pargār
Dari reading?	pargār
Iranian reading?	pargâr
Tajik reading?	pargor

Noun

پَرْگار • (pargâr) (plural پرگارها (pargâr-hâ))

1. pair of compasses
   • 11th century, Abū Saʿīd Abī-l-Khayr, Rubāʿī attributed to Abū Saʿīd Abī-l-Khayr‎^[1]:

     جانا من و تو نمونهٔ پرگاریم
     سر گرچه دو کرده‌ایم یک تن داریم

     jānā man u tō namūna-yi pargār-ēm
     sar garči du karda'ēm yak tan dārēm

     My love, you and I are akin to a pair of compasses;
     Though we are of two heads/ends, we have one body.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

• هفت‌پرگار (haft-pargâr)
• پرگاری (pargâri)
• پرگاله (pargâle)

Descendants

• → Arabic: بِرْكَار (birkār), فِرْجَار (firjār), بِرْجَار (birjār), بَرْجَل (barjal), بِيكَار (bīkār)
• → Azerbaijani: pərgar
• → Georgian: ფარგალი (pargali)
• → Middle Armenian: փարկալ (pʻarkal), փալկալ (pʻalkal)
  • Armenian: փարգալ (pʻargal)
• → Ottoman Turkish: پرگار (perger), پرگال (pergel)
  • Turkish: pergel
  • → Armenian: փերգել (pʻergel), փերկել (pʻerkel)
  • → Bulgarian: пергел (pergel)
  • → Romanian: perghel

References

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “پرگار”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press