کژدم
Persian
Alternative forms
- گَژدُم (gaždom)
- گَشدُم (gazdom)
Etymology
From Middle Persian [script needed] (gazdum). By surface analysis, کژ (kaž, “bent, crooked”) + دم (dom, “tail”). For the semantics compare Old Armenian կոր (kor). Compare Talysh کرژدوم (kırjdom).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [kaʒ.dum]
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [kʰäʒ.d̪ʊm]
- (Kabuli) IPA(key): [kʰäʒ.d̪ʊm]
- (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [kʰäʒ.d̪um]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [kʰʲæʒ.d̪om]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [kʰäʒ.d̪um]
Readings | |
---|---|
Classical reading? | každum |
Dari reading? | každum |
Iranian reading? | každom |
Tajik reading? | každum |
Noun
Dari | کژدم |
---|---|
Iranian Persian | عقرب |
Tajik | каждум, гаждум |
کژدم • (každom) (plural کژدمها (každom-hâ))
- (chiefly Dari, Tajik; elsewhere dated) scorpion
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 230:
- آدمی مر مار و کژدم را چه کرد
کاو همیخواهد مر او را مرگ و درد- ādamī mar mār u každum rā či kard
k-ō hamē-xwahad ō rā marg u dard - What was done by man to snake and scorpion
that they wish (to inflict) death and pain upon him?
- ādamī mar mār u každum rā či kard
Inflection
Enclitic-attached forms of کژدم (každom) (Iranian Persian) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian کژدم (každum).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /kəʒ.d̪ʊm/
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.