Persian edit

Etymology edit

Most likely a compound corresponding to زمی (zami, earth) + آروغ (âruğ, belch; burp). Persian sometimes conflates initial /s-/ and /z-/.[1]

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? samārōğ
Dari reading? samārōğ
Iranian reading? samâruğ
Tajik reading? samorüġ

Noun edit

Dari سماروغ
Iranian Persian قارچ
Tajik қорч

سماروغ (samâruğ)

  1. (Dari, Sistani or archaic) mushroom

References edit

  1. ^ Asatrian, Garnik (2020) “Classical New Persian samārō/ūγ ‘mushroom’”, in Iran & the Caucasus[1], volume 24, number 4, →DOI, pages 419–422