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Persian
Pronunciation
Readings
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Classical reading?
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tang
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Dari reading?
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tang
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Iranian reading?
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tang
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Tajik reading?
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tang
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Etymology 1
From Middle Persian (tng /tang/, “narrow, tight”), from Proto-Indo-European *tenk- (“to compact”),[1] perhaps from *ten- (“to stretch”). Cognate with تنجیدن (tanjidan, “to squeeze”), as well as Old Armenian թանկ (tʻank), an Iranian borrowing.
Adjective
Dari
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تنگ
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Iranian Persian
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Tajik
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танг
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تنگ • (tang) (comparative تنگتَر (tang-tar), superlative تنگتَرین (tang-tarin))
- narrow, strait; tight
Etymology 2
Via Chagatai from Chinese 桶 (MC thuwngX|duwngX, “tub, keg”)
Noun
تنگ • (tong)
- flagon, carafe, decanter
Etymology 3
Via Chagatai from Chinese 等 (MC tojX|tongX, “equal; sort, type, etc.”), or specifically 戥 (“small steelyard for weighing money and similar items”).
Noun
تنگ • (teng, tang)
- a bundle on one half of a beast of burden, package, ass-load
- a girth, a strap, a band, a brace
- a wooden instrument with iron teeth used in separating rice from the chaff
- a machine for making powder
- an oil-press
References
- Doerfer, Gerhard (1965) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission) (in German), volume II, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 574–577, Nr. 941 and 942
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “تنگ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “دنگ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
- ^ Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 377-8
Sindhi
Etymology
From Sanskrit .
Pronunciation
Adjective
تَنگ • (tāng) (Devanagari तान्ग्)
- narrow
References
- Khānu, Balocu (1960–1988) “تنگ”, in Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāta (in Sindhi), Hyderabad, Sindh: Sindhī Adabī Borḍ
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian تنگ (tang).
Pronunciation
Adjective
تنگ • (taṅg) (Hindi spelling तंग)
- tight, narrow
- troubled, distressed, vexed
- distracted, bothered
Derived terms