چنگی

Ottoman Turkish

چنگی

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian چَنْگِی (čangī).

Noun

چنگی • (çengi)

1. public dancer

Descendants

• Turkish: çengi
• → Albanian: çengi
• → Aromanian: cinghíe
• → Bulgarian: чинги́я (čingíja)
• → Macedonian: ченгија (čengija)
• → Romanian: cinghíe
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: чѐнгија

  Latin script: čèngija

References

• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “482. ČINGÍE, sb. f. pl. činǵiǐ, -urǐ”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[1], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 110

Persian

Etymology

From چنگ (čang) +‎ ـی (-i).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃan.ˈɡiː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰäŋ.ɡíː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰäŋ.ɡíː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰäŋ.ɡíː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰäŋ.ɡí]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰæɲ.ɡʲíː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰäŋ.ɡí]

Readings
Classical reading?	čangī
Dari reading?	čangī
Iranian reading?	čangi
Tajik reading?	čangi

Noun

Dari	چنگی
Iranian Persian
Tajik	чангӣ

چنگی • (čangi)

1. harper, lutanist
2. public dancer

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: چنگی (çengi)
  • Turkish: çengi
  • → Albanian: çengi
  • → Aromanian: cinghíe
  • → Bulgarian: чинги́я (čingíja)
  • → Macedonian: ченгија (čengija)
  • → Romanian: cinghíe
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: чѐнгија

    Latin script: čèngija

Further reading

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “چنگی”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Vullers, Johann August (1855) “چنگی”, 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^[2] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 596a