چنگ

See also: خنک, خنگ, حنك, جنک, and جنگ

Khalaj

Noun

چَنگ (çəng) (definite accusative چَنگی, plural چَنگلَر)

1. Arabic spelling of çəng (“claw”)

Declension

Declension of چنگ

	singular	plural
nominative	چنگ	چنگلَر
genitive	چنگۆݧ	چنگلَریݧ
dative	چنگکه	چنگلَرکه
definite accusative	چنگۆ	چنگلَری
locative	چنگچه	چنگلَرچه
ablative	چنگده	چنگلَرده
instrumental	چنگله	چنگلَرله
equative	چنگوارا	چنگلَروارا

Persian

Pronunciation

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

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰäŋɡ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰäŋɡ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰäŋɡ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰäŋɡ̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰæɲɡʲ̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰäŋɡ]

Readings
Classical reading?	čang
Dari reading?	čang
Iranian reading?	čang
Tajik reading?	čang

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”). Compare English hook; also related to Old Armenian ճանկ (čank), Middle Georgian ჭანგი (č̣angi), Iranian borrowings.

Noun

Dari	چنگ
Iranian Persian
Tajik	чанг

چنگ • (čang) (plural چنگ‌ها (čang-hâ) or چنگان (čangân))

1. claw, talon
2. clutch, embrace
3. (dialectal, literary) hand, finger
4. (dialectal, literary) beak

Related terms

• چنگک (čangak)
• چنگله (čangale)
• چنگار (čangâr)
• چنگال (čangâl)

Descendants

• → Armenian: չանգ (čʻang)
• → Azerbaijani: cəng
• → Khalaj: çəng
• → Ottoman Turkish: چنك (çenk)

Etymology 2

Possibly related to the meaning of “claw” and “talon”, from Middle Persian [script needed] (cng /⁠čang⁠/, “harp”). Cognate to Parthian [Manichaean needed] (šng /⁠šang⁠/, “harp”), Sogdian [Manichaean needed] (cyngry’ /⁠čingaryā⁠/), [Manichaean needed] (cngry’ /⁠čangaryā⁠/, “(a kind of) musical instrument, (a kind of) harp”); also related to Arabic صَنْج (ṣanj), a Middle Persian borrowing.

Noun

چنگ • (čang) (plural چنگ‌ها (čang-hâ))

2. (music) lyre, harp

Related terms

• چنگله (čangale)
• چنگی (čangi)
• چنگ‌زن (čang-zan)

Descendants

• → Arabic: جَنْك (jank), جُنْك (junk)
• → Azerbaijani: çəng
• → Burmese: စောင်း (caung:)
  • → Mon: စံၚ်
• → Georgian: ჩანგი (čangi)
• → Ottoman Turkish: چنك (çenk, çeng)
  • Turkish: çenk, çeng

References

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “چنگ”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “چنگ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Vullers, Johann August (1855) “چنگ”, 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 I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 595
• Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 217
• Gharib, B. (1995) “čingaryā”, in Sogdian dictionary: Sogdian–Persian–English, Tehran: Farhangan Publications, page 132