کاواک

Persian

From (kâv, present stem of (kâvidan, “to burrow, to dig, to search deeply, to investigate”)) +‎ (-âk, suffix that forms the active participle from the present verb stem).^[1] The suffix is an alternative form of (-â), which originates from Middle Persian -ʾk' (/⁠-āg⁠/).^[2] Refer to (xorâk, “food”) for another example of a word that ends this alternative form of (-â), and to (gôyâ, “capable of speech”) or (resâ, “audible”) for examples of words that ends in the standard form of the suffix.

Alternatively, it may be from Turkic.^[3]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [kʰɑː.wɑːk]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [kʰɑː.wɑːk]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [kʰɔː.wɔːk]

کاواک • (kâvâk)

^ Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “کاواک”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “āg”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 6
^ Monchi-Zadeh, Davoud (1990) Wörter aus Xurāsān und ihre Herkunft (Acta Iranica; 29)‎^[1] (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 210 A. 42