گنگ

See also: کنگ, کبک, کپک, کپگ, كنك, and کنک

Persian

Etymology 1

Perhaps developed from the sense “to mock, hum”. Usually connected to Sanskrit गुञ्जति (guñjati, “buzz, hum”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ɡuŋɡ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡʊŋɡ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡʊŋɡ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ɡʊŋɡ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ɡuŋɡ̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡ̥oŋɡʲ̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡuŋɡ]

Readings
Classical reading?	gung
Dari reading?	gung
Iranian reading?	gong
Tajik reading?	gung

Noun

Dari	گنگ
Iranian Persian
Tajik	гунг

گنگ • (gong)

1. mute, a person unable to speak

Adjective

گنگ • (gong)

1. (obsolete) crooked, hurled, of a bent back
2. mute, a person unable to speak

Descendants

• → Old Anatolian Turkish: [Term?] (“conduit”)
  • Azerbaijani: küng
    • → Armenian: քունգ (kʻung)
  • Ottoman Turkish: كنك (künk)
    • Turkish: künk
    • → Albanian: qynke, çungu
    • → Armenian: քիւնկ (kʻiwnk)
    • → Aromanian: ciunge, ciungu
    • → Bulgarian: кюнк (kjunk), кю́нец (kjúnec)
    • → Greek: κιούγκι (kioúgki)
    • → Macedonian: ќунк (ḱunk)
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: ћу̏нак, чу̏нак

      Latin script: ćȕnak, čȕnak

• → Turkmen: güň (mute and deaf at the same time)

Etymology 2

Noun

گنگ • (gang)

1. (obsolete) island

Etymology 3

From Sanskrit गङ्गा (gaṅgā).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ɡaŋɡ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡäŋɡ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡäŋɡ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ɡäŋɡ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ɡäŋɡ̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡʲæŋɡʲ̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡäŋɡ]

Readings
Classical reading?	gang
Dari reading?	gang
Iranian reading?	gang
Tajik reading?	gang

Proper noun

Dari	گنگ
Iranian Persian
Tajik	Ганг

گنگ • (gang)

1. the Ganges

Descendants

• → Arabic: الْكَنْك (al-kank)
• → Ottoman Turkish: كنك (Geng)
  • Turkish: Geng

Etymology 4

Proper noun

گنگ • (gang)

1. (obsolete) Tashkent

   Synonyms: تاشکند (tâškand), چاچ (čâč)

2. (obsolete) Jerusalem
3. (historical) the name of a certain mythological city fully گنگ دژ, گنگ دز, or گنگ بهشت

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “گنگ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 137
• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “گنگ”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, pages 1037–1038