اشرج

See also: أشرح‎ and اشرح‎

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic أَشْرَج‎ (ʔašraj), with the same meaning.

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /aʃˈɾad͡ʒ/

(Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /aʃˈɾad͡ʒ/

(Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /æʃˈɾæd͡ʒ/

(Tajik) IPA^(key): /aʃˈɾad͡ʒ/

Noun

اشرج • (ašraj)

(literary, rare) A horse (or some other mammal) with only one testicle.
A horse with one testicle larger than the other.

Further reading

Francis Joseph Steingass, A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1892. http ://dsalsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.0:1:3039.steingass
‎ (loğat-nâme dehxodâ, “Dehkhoda dictionary, the most authoritative dictionary of Persian”), entry for ‎. http ://www.loghatnaameh.org/dehkhodaworddetail-8959495feaf14bab8cef53da4c7a870b-fa.html

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