چنگال
Ottoman Turkish edit
Noun edit
چنگال • (çengel)
- Alternative spelling of چنگل (çengel, “hook”)
Further reading edit
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چنگال”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[1], Vienna, column 1664
Persian edit
Etymology edit
Compare چنگ (čang).
Pronunciation edit
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- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [t͡ʃan.ˈɡɑːl]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰæŋ.ɡɒ́ːl̥]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰäŋ.ɡɔ́l]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | čangāl |
Dari reading? | čangāl |
Iranian reading? | čangâl |
Tajik reading? | čangol |
Noun edit
چنگال • (čangâl) (plural چنگالها (čangâl-hâ))
- fork
- hook
- claw, talon
- c. 1260, Rumi, “3:3984”, in The Masnavi:
- گربه مرگست و مرض چنگال او، میزند بر مرغ و پر و بال او.
- gorbe marg-ast o maraz čangâl-e u, mi-zanad bar morğ o par o bâl-e u.
- the cat is death and disease is its claws; it strikes the bird, and its feathers and wings.
Inflection edit
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Descendants edit
Urdu edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Persian چنگال (čangāl).
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /t͡ʃəŋ.ɡɑːl/
Noun edit
چَن٘گال • (caṅgāl) m (Hindi spelling चंगाल)
Declension edit
Declension of چنگال | ||
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singular | plural | |
direct | چَن٘گال (caṅgāl) | چَن٘گال (caṅgāl) |
oblique | چَن٘گال (caṅgāl) | چَن٘گالوں (caṅgālō̃) |
vocative | چَن٘گال (caṅgāl) | چَن٘گالو (caṅgālō) |
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “چنگال”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “چَن٘گال”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “چنگل”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “چنگال”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.