Persian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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Dari سماروغ
Iranian Persian قارچ
Tajik қорч

سماروغ (samâruğ)

  1. (Dari, Sistani or archaic) mushroom

References

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