Etymology

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From Early New Persian اژگهان (ažgahân, lazy, indolent), with a semantic shift.

Adjective

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ajqahan

  1. wide, broad
  2. comfortable

Derived terms

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References

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  • Грюнберг, А. Л. (1963) Язык североазербайджанских татов[1] (in Russian), Leningrad: Academy Press, page 137a, spelling as ažgahán
  • Soltanov, A. K., Soltanov, M. C. (2013) “ajqahan”, in Tati–türki, türki–tati lüğət[2], Baku: Qanun, page 29a
  • Tonoyan, Artyom (2019) “On the Caucasian Persian (Tat) Lexical Substratum in the Baku Dialect of Azerbaijani. Preliminary Notes”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, volume 169, number 2, →DOI, pages 369–370