گنگ

See also: کنگ, کبک, کپک, کپگ, كنك, and کنک

Persian

Etymology 1

Perhaps developed from the sense “to mock, hum”. Usually connected to Sanskrit गुञ्जति (guñjati, “buzz, hum”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ɡuŋɡ]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡʊŋɡ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ɡʊŋɡ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ɡuŋɡ̥]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡ̥oŋɡʲ̥]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡuŋɡ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	gung
Dari reading^?	gung
Iranian reading^?	gong
Tajik reading^?	gung

Noun


Iranian Persian	گنگ
Dari	گنگ
Tajik	гунг

گنگ • (gong)

mute, a person unable to speak

Adjective

گنگ • (gong)

(obsolete) crooked, hurled, of a bent back
mute, a person unable to speak

Descendants

→ Old Anatolian Turkish: [Term?] (“conduit”)
- Azerbaijani: küng
  - → Armenian: քունգ (kʻung)
- Ottoman Turkish: كنك (künk)
  - Turkish: künk
  - → Albanian: qynke, çungu
  - → Armenian: քիւնկ (kʻiwnk)
  - → Aromanian: ciunge, ciungu
  - → Bulgarian: кюнк (kjunk), кю́нец (kjúnec)
  - → Greek: κιούγκι (kioúgki)
  - → Macedonian: ќунк (ḱunk)
  - → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ћу̏нак, чу̏нак
    Latin script: ćȕnak, čȕnak
→ Turkmen: güň (mute and deaf at the same time)

Etymology 2

Noun

گنگ • (gang)

(obsolete) island

Etymology 3

Persian Wikipedia has an article on:

گنگ (رود)

Wikipedia ^fa

From Sanskrit गङ्गा (gaṅgā).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ɡaŋɡ]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡäŋɡ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ɡäŋɡ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ɡäŋɡ̥]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡʲæŋɡʲ̥]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡäŋɡ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	gang
Dari reading^?	gang
Iranian reading^?	gang
Tajik reading^?	gang

Proper noun


Iranian Persian	گنگ
Dari	گنگ
Tajik	Ганг

گنگ • (gang)

the Ganges

Descendants

→ Arabic: الْكَنْك (al-kank)
→ Ottoman Turkish: كنك (Geng)
- Turkish: Geng

Etymology 4

Persian Wikipedia has an article on:

گنگ دژ

Wikipedia ^fa

Proper noun

گنگ • (gang)

(obsolete) Tashkent
Synonyms: تاشکند (tâškand), چاچ (čâč)
(obsolete) Jerusalem
(historical) the name of a certain mythological city fully , , or

References

Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “گنگ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 137
Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “گنگ”, 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^[1] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, pages 1037–1038