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Persian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”). Related to چنگ (čang). Cognate with English hook.
Pronunciation
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| Classical reading?
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kaj
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| Dari reading?
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kaj
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| Iranian reading?
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kaj
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| Tajik reading?
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kaj
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Adjective
کج • (kaj)
- crooked
References
- Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “کج”, 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, pages 798b–800a
- Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 217