گنگ

Perhaps developed from the sense “to mock, hum”. Usually connected to Sanskrit गुञ्जति (guñjati, “buzz, hum”).

گنگ • (gong)

1. mute, a person unable to speak

گنگ • (gong)

1. (obsolete) crooked, hurled, of a bent back
2. mute, a person unable to speak

• → Old Anatolian Turkish: [Term?] (“conduit”)
  • Azerbaijani: küng
    • → Armenian: քունգ (kʿung)
  • Ottoman Turkish: كنك‎ (künk)
    • Turkish: künk
    • → Albanian: qynke, çungu
    • → Armenian: քիւնկ (kʿiwnk)
    • → Aromanian: ciunge, ciungu
    • → Bulgarian: кюнк (kjunk), кю́нец (kjúnec)
    • → Greek: κιούγκι (kioúgki)
    • → Macedonian: ќунк (ḱunk)
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: ћу̏нак, чу̏нак

      Latin script: ćȕnak, čȕnak

گنگ • (gang)

1. (obsolete) island

گنگ • (gang)

1. the river Ganges
2. (obsolete) Tashkent

   Synonyms: تاشکند‎ (tâškand), چاچ‎ (čâč)

3. (obsolete) Jerusalem
4. (historical) the name of a certain mythological city fully گنگ دژ‎, گنگ دز‎, or گنگ بهشت‎

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “گنگ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 137
• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864), “گنگ”, 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 II, Bonn: Adolf Marcus, pages 1037–1038