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Persian
Etymology
From کاو (kâv, present stem of کاویدن (kâvidan, “to burrow, to dig, to search deeply, to investigate”)) + ـاک (-âk, suffix that forms the active participle from the present verb stem).[1] The suffix is an alternative form of ـا (-â), which originates from Middle Persian -ʾk' (/-āg/).[2] Refer to خوراک (xorâk, “food”) for another example of a word that ends this alternative form of ـا (-â), and to گویا (gôyâ, “capable of speech”) or رسا (resâ, “audible”) for examples of words that ends in the standard form of the suffix.
Alternatively, it may be from Turkic.[3]
Pronunciation
| Readings
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| Classical reading?
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kāwāk
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| Dari reading?
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kāwāk
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| Iranian reading?
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kâvâk
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| Tajik reading?
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kovok
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Noun
کاواک • (kâvâk)
- cavity
- hollow
References
- ^ Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “کاواک”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
- ^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “āg”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 6
- ^ Monchi-Zadeh, Davoud (1990) Wörter aus Xurāsān und ihre Herkunft (Acta Iranica; 29) (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 210 A. 42