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
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”)

Noun

کلنگ • (kolang, kolong) (plural کلنگ‌ها (kolang, kolong-hâ) or کلنگان (kolang, kolongân))

  1. (archaic, Dari) crane (bird)

References

  • The template Template:R:ota:Pomorska does not use the parameter(s): 
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    Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.    Pomorska, Marzanna (2013) Materials for a Historical Dictionary of New Persian Loanwords in Old Anatolian and Ottoman Turkish from the 13th to the 16th Century (Studia Turcologica Cracoviensia; 13)‎, Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, →ISBN, page 150
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “کلنگ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
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