تنگ

From Middle Persian [script needed] (tng /tang/, “narrow, tight”), from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch”). Cognate with Old Armenian թանկ (tʿank), an Iranian borrowing.

تنگ • (tang) (comparative تنگ‌تَر‎ (tang-tar), superlative تنگ‌تَرین‎ (tang-tarin))

1. narrow, strait; tight

• تنگی‎ (tangi)
• تنک‎ (tonok)

Via Chagatai from Chinese 桶 (MC tʰuŋX, duŋX, “tub, keg”)

تنگ • (tong)

1. flagon, carafe, decanter

Via Chagatai from Chinese 等 (MC tʌiX, təŋX, “equal; sort, type, etc.”), or specifically 戥 (“small steelyard for weighing money and similar items”).

• دنگ‎ (deng, dang)

تنگ • (teng, tang)

1. a bundle on one half of a beast of burden, package, ass-load
2. a girth, a strap, a band, a brace
3. a wooden instrument with iron teeth used in separating rice from the chaff
4. a machine for making powder
5. an oil-press

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1965) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission)‎ (in German), volume II, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 574–577, Nr. 941 and 942
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “تنگ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “دنگ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

From Persian تنگ‎ (tang).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t̪əŋɡ/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /t̪əŋɡ/

تنگ • (taṅg) (Hindi spelling तंग)

1. tight, narrow
2. troubled, distressed, vexed
3. distracted, bothered

• تنگ کرنا‎ (tãṅg karnā)