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Persian
Etymology
From چنگ (čang) + ـی (-i).
Pronunciation
Readings
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Classical reading?
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čangī
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Dari reading?
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čangī
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Iranian reading?
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čangi
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Tajik reading?
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čangi
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Noun
Dari
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چنگی
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Iranian Persian
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Tajik
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чангӣ
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چنگی • (čangi)
- harper, lutanist
- public dancer
Descendants
- → Ottoman Turkish: چنگی (çengi)
Further reading
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “چنگی”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
- Vullers, Johann August (1855) “چنگی”, 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 I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 596a