پرغنگ

Brahui

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Dravidian [Term?]. Cognate with Tamil பிரி (piri, “to separate, part”).

Verb

پِرْغِنْگ (pirġiṅg)

1. to break
2. to rend
3. to defeat
4. to break into, burgle
5. to transgress, disobey (orders, etc.)
6. to solve (a riddle)
7. to break in, discipline
8. to shed (one's first teeth)
9. to wink (one's eye)
10. to droop in death (of the eye)
11. to twist (especially a rope)

Related terms

• پِنِّنْگ (pinniṅg, “to be broken”)

Further reading

• Bray, Denys (1934) “pirghing”, in The Brahui Language‎^[1], Calcutta, India: Superintendent Government Printing, Part II: The Brāhūī Problem; Part III: Etymological Vocabulary, page 238
• Ali, Liaquat, Kobayashi, Masato (2024) “pirɣ-ing”, in Brahui Texts: Glossed and Translated Short Stories and Folktales‎^[2], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, page 721