کلنگ

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See also: كلنك

Persian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to beat, strike, break”). Compare کلند (koland).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? kulang
Dari reading? kulang
Iranian reading? kolang, kolong
Tajik reading? kulang

Noun

کلنگ • (kolang, kolong)

  1. pickaxe
Alternative forms
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Armenian: քլունգ (kʻlung, “pickaxe”)
  • → Old Anatolian Turkish: كلنك (külünk, külüng, “pickaxe”)

Etymology 2

Middle Persian (klng /⁠kulang⁠/), possibly a remnant of a formation from the Proto-Indo-European root *gerh₂-. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Cognate with Northern Kurdish quling, Northern Luri (qołeńg, “قولٛنڳ”)

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? kulang
Dari reading? kulang, kalang
Iranian reading? kolang
Tajik reading? kulang

Noun

Dari کلنگ
Iranian Persian کلنگ، درنا
Tajik турна

کلنگ • (kolang) (plural کلنگ‌ها (kolang-hâ) or کلنگان (kolangân))

  1. crane (bird)
Derived terms

Further reading

  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “کلنگ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  • Bulkin, Carleton (2012) “کلنگ”, in Dari-English/English-Dari practical dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 292
  • “کلنگ”, in قاموس کبیر افغانستان [qāmūs-i kabīr-i afğānistān, The Great Dictionary of Afghanistan] (in Persian), Afghan Dictionary, 2023
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