لاک

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See also: لاك and لأك

Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

A contraction of لاوک (lâvak, kneading trough), derived with a l < n sound change from Old Iranian *nāwaka-, a diminutive of Proto-Iranian *náHuš (boat); doublet of ناوک (nâvak, hopper or feeder of a mill; a small boat) and ناوه (nâve, kneading trough; a small boat). Cognate with Mazanderani (lɔk, kneading trough).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? lāk
Dari reading? lāk
Iranian reading? lâk
Tajik reading? lok

Noun

لاک (lâk)

  1. trough, wooden vessel

Derived terms

Descendants

  • >? Tat: lak
  • >? Judeo-Tat: lok
  • Armenian: լաք (lakʻ, dry measure for cereals; wooden trough), ? լաք (lakʻ, garden bed)
  • ? Azerbaijani: lək

References

  • Hassandoust, Mohammad (2014/2015) Bahman Sarkarati, editor, Farhang-e riše-šenâxti-ye zabân-e Farsi [An Etymological Dictionary of the Persian Language] (in Persian), volume IV: K-Y, Tehran: Academy of Persian Language and Literature, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, page 2504
  • Lambton, Ann K. (1938) Three Persian dialects, London: Royal Asiatic Society, page 89b
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “لاك”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 1112
  1. ^ Palatecʻi, Gēorg Dpir (1829) “լէք”, in Baṙaran Parskerēn əst kargi haykakan aybubenicʻ [Persian Dictionary in the Order of the Armenian Alphabet] (in Armenian), Constantinople: Boghos Arabian Press, page 167b
  2. ^ Eilers, Wilhelm (1974) Die vergleichend-semasiologische Methode in der Orientalistik (Abhandlungen der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse; 1973, Nr. 10)‎ (in German), Wiesbaden: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz, page 58, footnote 82
  3. ^ Asatrian, Garnik, Hakobian, Gohar (2018) “On *-d- > -l- and *-š- > -l- in Western New Iranian”, in Iran and the Caucasus, volume 22, number 3, →DOI, page 304, footnote 8