خنگ

See also: خنک‎, چنگ‎, حنك‎, جنک‎, جنگ‎, جنك‎, and جنګ‎

Persian

Pronunciation
  • (Tajik) IPA(key): /xinɡ/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱanḱest-, *kankest- (“horse”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *hangistaz.

Noun

خنگ • (xeng)

  1. horse
  2. white horse
  3. gray horse
Synonyms

Adjective

خنگ • (xeng)

  1. dumb, stupid
Descendants
  • → Armenian: խենգ (xeng)
  • → Azerbaijani: xing

Further reading
  • Lazard, Gilbert (1990), “خنگ”, in Dictionnaire persan-français, page 165b
  • Vullers, Johann August (1855), “خنگ”, 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 (in Latin), volume I, Bonn: Adolf Marcus, page 729a
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