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Persian
Etymology
From تشنه (tešne) + ـگی (-gi).
Pronunciation
| Readings
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| Classical reading?
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tašnagī
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| Dari reading?
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tašnagī
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| Iranian reading?
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tešnagi
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| Tajik reading?
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tašnagi
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Noun
| Dari
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تشنگی
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| Iranian Persian
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| Tajik
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ташнагӣ
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تشنگی • (tešnegi)
- thirst
- (figurative) craving, thirst (for)
c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 100:هر دم از تشنگی وصل مزن تیغ جفا
که دگر آرزوی آب زلالست مرا- har dam az tašnagī-yi wasl mazan tēğ-i jafā
ki digar ārzū-yi āb-i zulāl ast ma-rā - Do not strike iniquity's blade at each moment because of my thirst for reunion ,
For I also have a desire for limpid water.
Further reading
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “تشنگی”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim