زنگ

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See also: زنك and رنگ

Persian

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Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? zang
Dari reading? zang
Iranian reading? zang
Tajik reading? zang

Etymology 1

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Cognate with Central Kurdish ژەنگ (jeng), Northern Kurdish jeng, Baluchi زنگ (zang), and with Iranian borrowings in Old Armenian ժանգ (žang), and Caucasian languages such as Georgian ჟანგი (žangi), ჯანგი (ǯangi).

Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *geng- (lump) and cognate with Ancient Greek γόγγρος (góngros, tubercular disease in olive-trees).[1] For the sense development compare the meanings "cancer", "disease of plants" found in some of the cognates.

Noun

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زَنگ (zang)

  1. rust
    Synonym: (dialectal) منگ (mang)
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Descendants
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  • Bengali: জং (joṅ)
  • Chagatai: زنگ (zang)
  • Gujarati: ઝંગ (jhaṅg)
  • Hindustani:
    Hindi: ज़ंग (zaṅg)
    Urdu: زَنگ (zaṅg)
  • Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਜ਼ੰਗ (zaṅg)
    Shahmukhi script: زَنگ (zang)

Etymology 2

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Cognate with Central Kurdish زەنگ (zeng). Compare the Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian զանգակ (zangak), Classical Syriac ܙܓܐ (zaggā), ܙܢܓܐ (zangā).

Perhaps ultimately an Inner Asian Wanderwort from Chinese. Compare Ottoman Turkish چاڭ (çaŋ, bell) whence modern Turkish çan; Chulym şaŋ (bell); Bashkir саң (sañ); Old Uyghur [script needed] (čaŋ, bell; cymbals); Shor шаң (bell); Khakas саң (sañ, bell); all perhaps from Middle Chinese (MC tsyeng, “gong”).

Noun

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زَنگ (zang)

  1. bell
    زنگِ دربzang-e darbdoorbell
    زنگِ آژیرzang-e âžiralarm bell
  2. (onomatopoeia) ring, buzz
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Etymology 3

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From Middle Persian *zang, reconstructible based on attested Middle Persian [script needed] (zngyk' /⁠zangīg⁠/, Black person). Beyond this, it is probably related to Ancient Greek Ἀζανία (Azanía), the name for an East African region in the first century AD, and to Ancient Greek Ζήγγισα (Zḗngisa), the Greek name of a cape in what is now southern Somalia. It may ultimately be the name of some local group.

Proper noun

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زَنگ (zang)

  1. (archaic or historical) the “Land of the Blacks”; Sub-Saharan East Africa; Abyssinia (in the vague sense); Zanj
  2. (archaic) Zanzibar
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References

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  1. ^ Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 883

Urdu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian زنگ (zang).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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زَن٘گ (zaṅgm (Hindi spelling ज़ंग)

  1. rust
  2. a small bell
  3. blackness

References

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  • زنگ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • زنگ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.