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Persian
Etymology
From Middle Persian (hngʾm /hangām/, “time, occasion”); by surface analysis, هن (han, “alternative form of هم (ham, “co-”)”) + گام (gām, “step”). Akin to Old Armenian հանգամանք (hangamankʻ, “details, circumstances, way”), an Iranian borrowing.
Pronunciation
| Readings
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| Classical reading?
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hangām
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| Dari reading?
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hangām
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| Iranian reading?
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hangâm, hengâm
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| Tajik reading?
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hangom
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Noun
| Dari
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هنگام
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| Iranian Persian
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| Tajik
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ҳангом
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هنگام • (hangâm, hengâm)
- time, hour
- 9th century, Firdowsi, Shahnameh
به جامسپ گفت ار چنین است کار
به هنگام رفتن سوی کارزار- ba jâmasp guft ar čenin ast kâr
ba hangâm-î raftan sôy-î kârzâr
- (rare) season
- 11th century, Manuchehri
هنگام بهار است و جهان چون بت فرخار
خیز ای بت فرخار و بیار آن گل بی خار- hangâm-î bahâr ast u jahân čun but-î farxâr, xêz ay but-î farxâr u beyâr ân gul-î be xâr
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Gujarati: હંગામ (haṅgām)
References
- ^ Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2007) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 3, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 128
- ^ Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “هنگام”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
- ^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “hngʾm”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 42