خلنج

Borrowed from Classical Persian خلنگ (xalang, “heather”)

• IPA^(key): /xa.land͡ʒ/

خَلَنْج • (ḵalanj) m

1. heather, various Ericeae plants
   • c. 910, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Faqīh al-Hamaḏānī, Kitāb al-Buldān‎^[1]:

     وَلَهُمُ ٱلثِّيرَانُ ٱلْأَرْمِينِيَّةُ، وَٱلشَّاهْ بَلُّوطُ، وَٱلْخَلَنْجُ ٱلْكَثِيرُ، وَيَتَّخِذُونَ مِنْهُ عَجَائِبَ.

     walahumu ṯ-ṯīrānu l-ʔarmīniyyatu, waš-šāh ballūṭu, wal-ḵalanju l-kaṯīru, wayattaḵiḏūna minhu ʕajāʔiba.

     And they have Armenian apricot, chestnut, and much heather, and they obtain miracles from it.

• Frähn, Christian Martin (1823) Ibn-Foszlan's und anderer Araber Berichte über die Russen älterer Zeit‎^[2], Saint Petersburg: Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, pages 107–109

Readings
Classical reading?	xalanj, xilanj
Dari reading?	xalanj, xilanj
Iranian reading?	xalanj, xelanj
Tajik reading?	xalanj, xilanj

خَلَنْج or خِلَنْج • (xalanj or xilanj)

1. Alternative form of خلنگ (xalang, xilang, “bicoloured, piebald”)

خَلَنْج or خِلَنْج • (xalanj or xilanj) (obsolete)

1. a kind of black dove with checkered wings

Readings
Classical reading?	xilinj
Dari reading?	xilinj
Iranian reading?	xelenj
Tajik reading?	xilinj

خِلَنْگ • (xilinj)

1. pinching the skin with the nails

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “خلنج”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “خلنج”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Vullers, Johann August (1855) “خلنج”, 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^[3] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 716