لاغر

Khalaj

Adjective

لاغَر (lâğər)

  1. Arabic spelling of lâğər (“meager, slack”)

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian *lāgar, from Old Persian *lagrah, from Proto-Iranian *Hlagráh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hlagʰrás, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ln̥gʷʰrós (“lightweight”).[1][2] Cognate with Northern Kurdish lawaz, Gurani لاواز (lāwāz).

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [lɑː.ɣäɾ]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [lɑː.ɣäɾ]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [lɔː.ɣäɾ]

Readings
Classical reading? lāğar
Dari reading? lāğar
Iranian reading? lâğar
Tajik reading? loġar

Adjective
Dari لاغر
Iranian Persian
Tajik лоғар

لاغَر • (lâğar) (comparative لاغَرتَر (lâğar-tar), superlative لاغَرتَرین (lâğar-tarin))

  1. skinny; thin; slender; lithe
    Antonym: چاق (čâq, “fat”)
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume V, verse 3629:
      که طمع لاغر کند زرد و ذلیل / نیست او از علت ابدان علیل
      ke tama' lâğar konad zard o zalil / nist u az 'ellat-e abdân 'alil
      For [mere] hope makes him lean, pale, and wretched: he is not ill with bodily ailment.
    • published 1973, فروغ فرخزاد [Forugh Farrokhzad], translated by Hasan Javadi and Susan Sallée (in Another Birth: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad), ایمان بیاوریم به آغاز فصل سرد‎:
      و من به جفت‌گیری گل‌ها می‌اندیشم / به غنچه‌هایی با ساقه‌های لاغر کم خون
      va man be joft-giri-ye gol-hâ mi-andišam / be ğonče-hâ-yi bâ sâqe-hâ-ye lâğar-e kam-xun
      and I think of the pollination of the flowers / of the buds with thin anemic stems

Inflection
    Enclitic-attached forms of لاغر (lâğar)
    Basic forms of لاغر (lâğar)
bare لاغر
(lâğar)
ezâfe لاغر
(lâğar-e)
marked indefinite
or relative definite		 لاغری
(lâğar-i)
    Predicative forms of لاغر (lâğar)
singular plural
1st person
(“I am, we are”)		 لاغرم
(lâğaram)		 لاغریم
(lâğarim)
2nd person
(“you are”)		 لاغری
(lâğari)		 لاغرید
(lâğarid)
لاغرین △
(lâğarin)
3rd person
(“he/she/it is, they are”)		 لاغر است
(lâğar ast)
لاغره △
(lâğare)		 لاغرند
(lâğarand)
لاغرن △
(lâğaran)
△ Colloquial.

Derived terms

(verbs)

  • لاغر شدن (lâğar šodan)
  • لاغر کردن (lâgar kardan)

(other)

  • لاغری (lâğari)

Descendants
  • → Middle Armenian: լաղար (laġar)
  • → Azerbaijani: lağər
  • → Central Kurdish: له‌ڕ (lerr)
  • → Khalaj: lâğər
  • → Northern Kurdish: lexer
  • → Ottoman Turkish: لاغر (lağar)

References
  1. Mann, Stuart E. (1984–1987) “ln̥gu̯hros”, in An Indo-European Comparative Dictionary‎, Hamburg: Buske, column 700
  2. Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 275
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