سگ

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From Middle Persian sag, from Old Persian *𐏂𐎣 (*çaka-) (compare an Iranian denotation of the dog *spaka-, Old Median σπάκα, Northern Kurdish se, seg, and Old Armenian ասպակ (aspak, “dog”), from Middle Median *aspak), from Proto-Iranian *cwā́ (compare Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬁 (spā)), Pashto سپی (spëy)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćwā́ (compare Sanskrit श्वन् (śvā́)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ.

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سَگ • (sag) (plural سگ‌ها (sag-hâ) or سگان (sagân))

1. dog

   سگ من تندتر از سگ تو می‌دوه.

   sag-e man tond-tar az sag-e to mi-dave.

   My dog runs faster than yours.

• سگی (sagi)
• توله‌سگ (tule-sag)

• Perixanjan, A. G. (1993) Материалы к этимологическому словарю древнеармянского языка. Часть I [Materials for the Etymological Dictionary of the Old Armenian Language. Part 1]‎^[1] (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 20
• D. N. MacKenzie (1971) A Concise Pahlavi Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 73; Reprinted with corrections 1986.

Borrowed from Classical Persian سگ (sag, “dog”).

Cognate with Kashmiri ہوٗن (hūn), Kalasha شوںہ (šọ̃́a) and Shina شُن (śun)۔

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /səɡ/

سَگ • (sag) m (Hindi spelling सग)

1. dog

   Synonym: کُتّا (kuttā)

2. (vulgar, offensive) bitch

• سَگ بَچَّہ (sag-bacca, “puppy”)
• سَگِ غَرْچَہ (sag-e-ġarca, “wild dog”)
• سَگِ دِیوانَہ (sag-e-dīvāna, “mad dog”)
• سَگ زادَہ (sag-zāda)
• سَگِ دَر (sag-e-dar, “servant; lover”)
• سَگِ تَازی (sag-e-tāzī, “hunting dog”, literally “Tajiki dog”)
• سَگِ دُنیا (sag-e-duniyā, “selfish person”, literally “dog of the world”)
• سَگِ بازاری (sag-e-bāzārī, “street dog; cur, mongrel”)
• سَگِ شِکاری (sag-e-śikārī, “hunting dog”)

• “سگ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “سگ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “سگ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• “سگ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.