کارگاه

Persian

Etymology

From کار (kâr, “work”) +‎ ـگاه (-gâh, “place of”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [kɑːɾ.ˈɡɑːh]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰɑːɾ.ɡɑ́ːʱ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰɑːɾ.ɡɑ́ːʱ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [kʰɑːɾ.ɡɑ́ː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [kʰɔːɾ.ɡɔ́ː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰɒːɹ.ɡɒ́ːʰ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰɔɾ.ɡɔ́ʱ]

Readings
Classical reading?	kārgāh
Dari reading?	kārgāh
Iranian reading?	kârgâh
Tajik reading?	korgoh

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Noun

Dari	کارگاه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	коргоҳ

کارْگاه • (kârgâh) (plural کارگاه‌ها (kârgâh-hâ))

1. workshop
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 1586:

     پس دل من کارگاه بخت تست
     چه شکنی این کارگاه ای نادرست‏

     pas dil-i man kārgāh-i baxt-i tu-st
     či šikanī īn kārgāh ay nādurust

     Therefore my heart is the factory of your fortune:
     why would you break this factory, O unrighteous one?"

Descendants

• → Armenian: կարկահ (karkah), քարգահ (kʻargah)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: करघा (karghā), करगह (kargah) — obsolete

  Urdu: کَرْگھا (karghā), کار گاہ (kār gāh), کَرْگا (kargā)

• → Ottoman Turkish: گركف (gerkef), քէրկէֆ (kergef), կէրկէֆ (gergef) — Armeno-Turkish
  • Turkish: gergef — dialectal
  • → Albanian: gjergjef
  • → Armenian: քերկեֆ (kʻerkef)
  • → Bulgarian: герге́ф (gergéf)
  • → Greek: γκεργκέφι (gkergkéfi)
  • → Macedonian: ѓерѓеф (ǵerǵef)
  • → Romanian: gherghef
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ђѐрђеф

    Latin script: đèrđef