سگ

From Middle Persian sag, from Old Persian *𐏂𐎣 (*çaka-) (compare an Iranian denotation of the dog *spaka-, Old Median σπάκα, Northern Kurdish se, seg, and Old Armenian ասպակ (aspak, “dog”), from Middle Median *aspak), from Proto-Iranian *cwā́ (compare Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬁‎ (spā)), Pashto سپی‎ (spëy)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćwā́ (compare Sanskrit श्वन् (śvā́)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ.

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /saɡ/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /saɡ/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /sæɡ/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /saɡ/
• IPA^(key): [sæɡ]

سگ • (sag) (plural سگ‌ها‎ (sag-hâ) or سگان‎ (sagân))

1. dog

   ‏سگ من تندتر از سگ تو می‌دوه.‎‎

   sag-e man tond-tar az sag-e to mi-dave.

   My dog runs faster than yours.

• سگی‎ (sagi)
• توله‌سگ‎ (tule-sag)

• Perixanjan, A. G. (1993) Материалы к этимологическому словарю древнеармянского языка. Часть I [Materials for the Etymological Dictionary of the Old Armenian Language. Part 1]‎ (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 20
• D. N. MacKenzie (1971) A Concise Pahlavi Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 73; Reprinted with corrections , 1986.

Borrowed from Classical Persian سگ‎ (sag, “dog”).

Cognate with Kashmiri ہوٗن‎ (hūn), Kalasha شوںہ‎ (šọ̃́a) and Shina شُن‎ (śun)۔

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

سَگ • (sag) m (Hindi spelling सग)

1. dog

   Synonym: کتا‎ (kuttā)

2. (vulgar, offensive) bitch

• سَگ بَچَّہ‎ (sag-bacca, “puppy”)
• سَگِ غَرْچَہ‎ (sag-e-ġarca, “wild dog”)
• سَگِ دِیوانَہ‎ (sag-e-dīvāna, “mad dog”)
• سَگ زادَہ‎ (sag-zāda)
• سَگِ دَر‎ (sag-e-dar, “servant; lover”)
• سَگِ تَازی‎ (sag-e-tāzī, “hunting dog”, literally “Tajiki dog”)
• سَگِ دُنیا‎ (sag-e-duniyā, “selfish person”, literally “dog of the world”)
• سَگِ بازاری‎ (sag-e-bāzārī, “street dog; cur, mongrel”)
• سَگِ شِکاری‎ (sag-e-śikārī, “hunting dog”)

• “سگ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “سگ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John Thompson (1884), “سگ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
• “سگ”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.