چنگی

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See also: چنكی

Persian

Etymology

From (čang) +‎ (-i).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key):

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key):
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key):
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key):

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key):

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key):

Readings
Classical reading^?	čangī
Dari reading^?	čangī
Iranian reading^?	čangi
Tajik reading^?	čangi

Noun


Iranian Persian	چنگی
Dari	چنگی
Tajik	чангӣ

چنگی • (čangi)

harper, lutanist
public dancer

Descendants

→ Ottoman Turkish: چنگی (çengi)
- Turkish: çengi
- → Albanian: çengi
- → Aromanian: cinghíe
- → Bulgarian: чинги́я (čingíja)
- → Macedonian: ченгија (čengija)
- → Romanian: cinghíe
- → Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: чѐнгија
  Latin script: čèngija

Further reading

Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “چنگی”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
Vullers, Johann August (1855) “چنگی”, 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 I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 596a

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