خنگ

See also: خنک, چنگ, حنك, جنک, جنگ, جنك, and جنګ

Persian

Pronunciation

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

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xɪŋɡ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xɪŋɡ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [xɪŋɡ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [xiŋɡ̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [xeɲɡʲ̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [χiŋɡ]

Readings
Classical reading?	xing
Dari reading?	xing
Iranian reading?	xeng
Tajik reading?	xing

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱanḱest-, *kankest- (“horse”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *hangistaz, and thereby with German Hengst.

Noun

خنگ • (xeng)

1. horse
2. white horse
3. gray horse

Synonyms

• چرمه (čarme)
• الوس (alus)

Etymology 2

Adjective

خنگ • (xeng)

1. dumb, stupid

Descendants

• → Armenian: խենգ (xeng)
• → Azerbaijani: xing

Further reading

• Lazard, Gilbert (1990) “خنگ”, in Dictionnaire persan-français, page 165b
• Vullers, Johann August (1855) “خنگ”, 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 729a