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لاغر

Khalaj edit

Adjective edit

لاغَر (lâğər)

  1. Arabic spelling of lâğər (“meager, slack”)

Persian edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Persian *lāgar, from Old Persian *lagrah, from Proto-Iranian *Hlagráh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hlagʰrás, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ln̥gʷʰrós (“lightweight”).[1][2] Cognate with Northern Kurdish lawaz, Gurani لاواز (lāwāz).

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? lāğar
Dari reading? lāğar
Iranian reading? lâğar
Tajik reading? loġar

Adjective edit

Dari لاغر
Iranian Persian
Tajik лоғар

لاغَر • (lâğar) (comparative لاغَرتَر (lâğar-tar), superlative لاغَرتَرین (lâğar-tarin))

  1. skinny; thin; slender; lithe
    Antonym: چاق (čâq, “fat”)
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume V, verse 3629:
      که طمع لاغر کند زرد و ذلیل / نیست او از علت ابدان علیل
      ke tama' lâğar konad zard o zalil / nist u az 'ellat-e abdân 'alil
      For [mere] hope makes him lean, pale, and wretched: he is not ill with bodily ailment.
    • published 1973, فروغ فرخزاد [Forugh Farrokhzad], translated by Hasan Javadi and Susan Sallée (in Another Birth: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad), ایمان بیاوریم به آغاز فصل سرد‎[2]:
      و من به جفت‌گیری گل‌ها می‌اندیشم / به غنچه‌هایی با ساقه‌های لاغر کم خون
      va man be joft-giri-ye gol-hâ mi-andišam / be ğonče-hâ-yi bâ sâqe-hâ-ye lâğar-e kam-xun
      and I think of the pollination of the flowers / of the buds with thin anemic stems

Inflection edit

    Enclitic-attached forms of لاغر (lâğar)
    Basic forms of لاغر (lâğar)
bare لاغر
(lâğar)
ezâfe لاغر
(lâğar-e)
marked indefinite
or relative definite 		لاغری
(lâğar-i)
    Predicative forms of لاغر (lâğar)
singular plural
1st person
(“I am, we are”) 		لاغرم
(lâğaram) 		لاغریم
(lâğarim)
2nd person
(“you are”) 		لاغری
(lâğari) 		لاغرید
(lâğarid)
لاغرین △
(lâğarin)
3rd person
(“he/she/it is, they are”) 		لاغر است
(lâğar ast)
لاغره △
(lâğare) 		لاغرند
(lâğarand)
لاغرن △
(lâğaran)
△ Colloquial.

Derived terms edit

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Descendants edit

  • → Middle Armenian: լաղար (laġar)
  • → Azerbaijani: lağər
  • → Central Kurdish: له‌ڕ (lerr)
  • → Khalaj: lâğər
  • → Northern Kurdish: lexer
  • → Ottoman Turkish: لاغر (lağar)

References edit

  1. ^ Mann, Stuart E. (1984–1987) “ln̥gu̯hros”, in An Indo-European Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Hamburg: Buske, column 700
  2. ^ Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 275
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