کژدم
Persian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Persian [script needed] (gazdum). By surface analysis, کژ (kaž, “bent, crooked”) + دم (dom, “tail”). For the semantics compare Old Armenian կոր (kor). Compare Semnani گيژدم (giždom),[1] Talysh کرژدوم (kırjdom).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [kaʒ.dum]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [kʰʲæʒ.d̪om]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [kʰäʒ.d̪um]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | každum |
Dari reading? | každum |
Iranian reading? | každom |
Tajik reading? | každum |
Noun
editDari | کژدم |
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Iranian Persian | عقرب |
Tajik | каждум, гаждум |
کژدم • (každom) (plural کژدمها (každom-hâ))
- (chiefly Dari, Tajik; elsewhere dated) scorpion
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 230:
- آدمی مر مار و کژدم را چه کرد
کاو همیخواهد مر او را مرگ و درد- ādamī mar mār u každum rā či kard
k-ō hamē-xwahad ō rā marg u dard - What was done by man to snake and scorpion
that they wish (to inflict) death and pain upon him?
- ādamī mar mār u každum rā či kard
Inflection
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editReferences
edit- ^ Hosein Tabatabaei, Hasan Tabatabaei, Mohammad Rezaei (2015 August 23) “بررسی و تحلیل نظام آوایی گویش سرکویر در مقایسه با زبان پهلوی [Description of Sarkavir dialect compared with Pahlavi language]”, in Journal of Iranian Regional Languages and Literature[1], volume 5, number 2 (in Persian), pages 105–124
Urdu
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Classical Persian کژدم (každum).
Pronunciation
edit- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /kəʒ.d̪ʊm/
Noun
editکَژدُم • (každum) m (Hindi spelling कझ़दुम)
References
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