شاخ

See also: ساح

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ش ي خ (š-y-ḵ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃaː.xa/

Verb

شَاخَ (šāḵa) I, non-past يَشِيخُ‎ (yašīḵu)

  1. (intransitive) to become elderly; to age; to senesce

Conjugation

Central Kurdish

Noun

شاخ (şax)

  1. mountain

Persian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćā́kʰaH, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱókh₂eh₂ (branch).

Cognate with Sanskrit शाखा (śākhā, branch, twig, limb, finger), Old Armenian ցախ (cʿax, branch, twig), Lithuanian šakà (branch), Gothic 𐌷𐍉𐌷𐌰 (hōha, plough), Old East Slavic соха (soxa, stake, club, brace, plough), Old Irish géc (branch).

Pronunciation

  • (Tajik) IPA(key): /ʃɔx/

Noun

Dari شاخ
Iranian Persian
Tajik шох (šox)

شاخ (šâx)

  1. horn, antler
  2. a branch, bough, shoot, sucker, twig
  3. the arm, from the tip of the finger to the shoulder
  4. the leg, from the groin to the foot
  5. a small cut from a main stream
  6. the spur of a cock
  7. a rib
  8. a bit, piece
  9. a gusset, gore
  10. the forehead
  11. the main beam in the roof of a house
  12. a cup of wine (from a custom prevailing in Jurjistān, to drink wine out of horns), a goblet, a drinking-horn
  13. wine mixed with rose-water
  14. a horn wherein they keep civet, a scent-box
  15. civet
  16. the civet-cat
  17. spices, perfumes

References

Urdu

شاخ (sense .1)
شاخ (sense .2)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian شاخ (šāx, horn; branch). Compare Sanskrit शाखा (śākhā, branch, twig; limb).

Pronunciation

Noun

شاخ (śāx) f (Hindi spelling शाख़)

  1. horn; antler
  2. tree branch, bough
  3. (by extension) organizational branch

Derived terms

References

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