کرند

Persian

Alternative forms

• کرن (koran), کران (korân), کرنگ (korang), کورنگ (korang), کرنگه (korange), کرنده (korande)

Etymology

From Middle Mongol [script needed] (küreŋ, kürin, küren, “brown”), whence Mongolian хүрэн (xüren, “brown”). Akin to Wakhi kəráng, Pashto کرنگ (kuráng), Khowar [script needed] (kurang), Azerbaijani kürən, Ottoman Turkish كران (küran), Bashkir көрән (körən), Tatar көрән (körän), Kyrgyz күрөң (küröŋ), Uyghur كۈرەڭ (küreng), Tuvan хүрең (xüreñ), among others, all ultimately of the same Mongolic origin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ku.ˈɾanð]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰʊ.ɾǽn̪d̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰʊ.ɾǽn̪d̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [kʰʊ.ɾǽn̪d̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [kʰu.ɾǽn̪d̪̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰo.ɹǽn̪d̪̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰu.ɾǽn̪d̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	kurand
Dari reading?	kurand
Iranian reading?	korand
Tajik reading?	kurand

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): [kʰoˈɾænd], [kʰeˈɾend]

Adjective

کرند • (korand)

1. of a yellowish red or light brown color; bay (especially of horses)

Noun

کرند • (korand)

1. a horse of this color
2. hippodrome

Descendants

• → Georgian: ქურანი (kurani), ქურანა (kurana) (or from Turkic)
  • → Bats: ქურაჼ (kurã)
  • → Mingrelian: ქურანი (kurani)

References

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1963) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission)‎^[1] (in German), volume I, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 328, pages 463–464
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1975) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission)‎^[2] (in German), volume IV, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 328, page 395
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*k`i̯ū́ŕu”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Steblin-Kamenskij, I.M. (1999) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ vaxanskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Wakhi Language] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Peterburgskoje Vostokovedenije, →ISBN, page 218