داج
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Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic دَاجٍ (dājin).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key):
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key):
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key):
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | dāj |
| Dari reading? | dāj |
| Iranian reading? | dâj |
| Tajik reading? | doj |
Noun
داج • (dâj)
- darkness, obscurity; dark night
- c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 97”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]:
- بیاض روی تو روشن چو عارض رخ روز
سواد زلف سیاه تو هست ظلمت داج- bayāz-i rō-yi tu rōšan čū āriz-i rux-i rōz
sawād-i zulf-i siyāh-i tu hast zulmat-i dāj - The whiteness of your face is bright like the cheeks of the face of day,
The blackness of your sable locks is the darkness of obscure night.
- bayāz-i rō-yi tu rōšan čū āriz-i rux-i rōz
Further reading
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “داج”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
Punjabi
Etymology
Inherited from Sanskrit दायाद्य n (dāyādya, “inheritance”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Punjabi) IPA(key): /d̪äː.d͡ʒə̆/
Noun
داج • (dāj) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਦਾਜ)
Declension
| Declension of داج | ||
|---|---|---|
| dir. sg. | داج (dāj) | |
| dir. pl. | داج (dāj) | |
| singular | plural | |
| direct | داج (dāj) | داج (dāj) |
| oblique | داج (dāj) | داجاں (dājāṉ) |
| vocative | داجا (dājā) | داجو (dājo) |
| ablative | داجوں (dājoṉ) | داجاں (dājāṉ) |
| locative | داجے (dāje) | داجِیں (dājīṉ) |
| instrumental | داجوں (dājoṉ) | – |