کنگر
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably an ancient Aramaic borrowing, given that widespread Northeastern Neo-Aramaic ܩܰܠܩܳܐ (qalqa, “cardoon”) has another widespread variant ܩܰܩܢܳܐ (qaqna).[1][2] For ܩ (q) giving ک (k) see کما (komâ, “Ferula”), for the ر (r) شنار (šenâr, “swimming; horehound”) in place of شنا (šenâ), though trailing extension of a root by ر (r) within Semitic is also very often observed,[3] so either way a match is statistically likely.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [kan.ˈɡaɾ]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [kʰʲæɲ.ɡʲǽɹ]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [kʰäŋ.ɡǽɾ]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | kangar |
Dari reading? | kangar |
Iranian reading? | kangar |
Tajik reading? | kangar |
Noun
[edit]کنگر • (kangar) (plural کنگرها (kangar-hâ))
Synonyms
[edit]- گندل (gandal)
Derived terms
[edit]- کنگر فرنگی (kangar-e farangi)
Descendants
[edit]- → Arabic: كَنْكَر (kankar), كَنْجَر (kanjar)
- → Middle Armenian: կանկար (kankar), կանկառ (kankaṙ)
- → Azerbaijani: kəngər
- → Ottoman Turkish: كنگر (kenger)
- Turkish: kenger
- → Northern Luri: کݩڳێر (kenğır)
Further reading
[edit]- کنگر on the Persian Wikipedia.Wikipedia fa
- ^ Tezel, Aziz (2021) “On the Origin of Some Plant Names in Ṣūrayt/Ṭūrōyo in Ṭūr ʿAbdīn”, in Geoffrey Khan, Paul M. Noorlander, editors, Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic[1], Cambridge: University of Cambridge, , →ISBN, pages 335–341 for the Modern Aramaic forms and meanings, though the identity with the present word is not realized
- ^ While **ܩܰܢܩܳܐ (*qanqa) could hardly be maintained inside Semitic by reason of its homorganic structure. See for root structures Vernet i Pons, Eulàlia (2011 March 1) “Semitic Root Incompatibilities and Historical Linguistics”, in Journal of Semitic Studies, volume 56, number 1, , pages 1–18 and Greenberg, Joseph Harold (1950) “The Patterning of Root Morphemes in Semitic”, in Word[2], volume 6, number 2, , pages 162–181
- ^ See for that also Greenberg and Vernet i Pons, and many Arabic root etymologies on Wiktionary which to list would be otiose.