خرچنگ

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Azerbaijani

Noun

خرچنگ (definite accusative خرچنگی, plural خرچنگلر)

  1. Arabic spelling of xərçəng

Persian

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Etymology

Having its shape in New Persian due to folk etymological connection to خر (xar, “ass”) and چنگ (čang, “claw”) from Middle Persian (klcng /⁠karčang⁠/), 𐫞𐫏𐫡𐫉𐫗𐫃 (qyrzng /⁠karzang⁠/), cognate to Central Kurdish قرژاڵ (qerzhal), قرژانگ (qerzhang, “crab”), Southern Kurdish قِرژِنگ (qerzhang, “crab”), Northern Luri کرژنڳ (kerzheng), Zazaki kerkınc (“crab”) and Middle Armenian քարժանկ (kʻaržank, “crawfish”), ultimately from Old Iranian *karičanaka-, from Proto-Iranian *kar-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-, with a different second component encountered in Avestan 𐬐𐬵𐬀𐬭𐬞𐬎 (kharpu, “crab”) and Sanskrit कर्कट (karkaṭa, “crab”), Old Armenian կարիճ (karič, “scorpion”), Ancient Greek καρίς (karís, “shrimp”), Ancient Greek καρκίνος (karkínos, “crab”), Latin cancer (“crab”), and if we compare Ancient Greek κάραβος (kárabos, “a kind of beetle; a kind of crayfish”) then Old Armenian քարբ (kʻarb, “asp, basilisk”) and the Semitic family of Arabic عَقْرَب (ʕaqrab, “scorpion”) has to be noted, a circumstance which may point to an ideophonic phenomenon, which also probably influenced Proto-Germanic *krabbô.

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? xarčang
Dari reading? xarčang
Iranian reading? xarčang
Tajik reading? xarčang

Noun

خرچنگ • (xarčang) (plural خرچنگ‌ها (xarčang-hâ))

  1. crab (crustacean)

Descendants

  • → Azerbaijani: xərçəng
  • → Gujarati: ખરચંગ (kharcaṅg)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: خرچنگ (harçeng)

References

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