See also: کر, گز, گر, and کز

Persian edit

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? kaž
Dari reading? kaž
Iranian reading? kaž
Tajik reading? kaž

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Persian [script needed] (kaž, gaz), from Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (peg, hook, claw). Related to چنگ (čang). Cognate with English hook.

Adjective edit

کژ (kaž)

  1. Alternative form of کج (kaj, crooked)
Derived terms edit

References edit

  • Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “کژ”, 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[1] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 828
  • Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 217

Etymology 2 edit

From Middle Persian [script needed] (kač). Akin to Old Armenian կաճ (kač, felt), Old Georgian ყაჭი (q̇ač̣i), Aramaic קָזָא / קָאזָא (qāzzā), Arabic خَزّ (ḵazz), قَزّ (qazz, silk), possibly also Sanskrit कोशज (kośaja, coming from the cocoon, silk) and Ancient Greek χάσδιον (khásdion, a kind of silk-cloth). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

کژ (kaž)

  1. a type of silk
Derived terms edit

References edit

  • Asbaghi, Asya (1988) Persische Lehnwörter im Arabischen[2] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 218
  • Марр, Н. (1925) “По поводу русского слова "сало" в древнеармянском описании хазарской трапезы VII в. [Regarding the Russian word "сало" in a 7th century Old Armenian description of a Khazar meal]”, in Тексты и разыскания по кавказской филологии. Том 1 (in Russian), Leningrad: Academy Press, page 115 of 66–125
  • Tietze, Andreas (1967) “Persian Loanwords in Anatolian Turkish”, in Oriens, volume 20, in collaboration with Gilbert Lazard, →DOI, § 72, page 147 of 125–168
  • Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “کژ”, 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[3] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 828
  • Zieme, Peter (1995) “Philologische Bemerkungen zu einigen alttürkischen Stoffnamen”, in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae[4] (in German), volume 48, number 3, pages 493–494