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Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European*geng-(“lump”) and cognate with Ancient Greekγόγγρος(góngros, “tubercular disease in olive-trees”). For the sense development compare the meanings "cancer", "disease of plants" found in some of the cognates.
From Middle Persian*zang, reconstructible based on attested Middle Persian(zngyk'/zangīg/, “Black person”). Beyond this, it is probably related to Ancient GreekἈζανία(Azanía), the name for an East African region in the first century AD, and to Ancient GreekΖήγγισα(Zḗngisa), the Greek name of a cape in what is now southern Somalia. It may ultimately be the name of some local group.
^ Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 883