فنک
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Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from a Southern Mongolic dialect of Middle Mongol ancestral to Mongghul funige (“fox”), from Proto-Mongolic *hünegen (“fox”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key):
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key):
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key):
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | fanak |
| Dari reading? | fanak |
| Iranian reading? | fanak |
| Tajik reading? | fanak |
Noun
فنک • (fanak)
Descendants
References
- Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “فنک”, 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, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 694
- Wikander, Stig (1968) “A Central Asian Loanword in Arthaśāstra”, in J. C. Heesterman, G. H. Schokker, V. I. Subramoniam, editors, Pratidanam: Indian, Iranian, and Indo-European studies presented to Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus Kuiper on his sixtieth birthday (Janua Linguarum. Series Maior), volume 34, The Hague · Paris: Mouton, , →ISBN, page 272 fn. 11