زنگ

See also: زنك‎ and رنگ‎

Persian

Etymology 1

Cognate with Central Kurdish ژه‌نگ‎ (žang), Northern Kurdish jeng (žang), Baluchi [script needed] (zang) and with the following Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian ժանգ (žang), Georgian ჟანგი (žangi), ჯანგი (ǯangi), Laz მჟანგი (mžangi), ჯანგი (ǯangi), Bats ჟანგ (žang), Udi жӏанг (ž:ang), Chagatai زنگ‎ (zang), Assyrian Neo-Aramaic [script needed] (ǰäng).

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.

Alternative forms
  • ژنگ‎ (žang)

Noun

زنگ • (zang)

  1. rust
  • زنگار‎ (zangâr)
  • زنگی‎ (zangi)

References
  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

Further reading
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973), “ժանգ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume II, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 225–226
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 156

Etymology 2

Compare Old Armenian զանգ (zang), an Iranian borrowing.

Noun

زنگ • (zang)

  1. bell
  2. ring (onomatopoeia)
  3. buzz (onomatopoeia)

Proper noun

زنگ • (Zang)

  1. (archaic) Zanzibar
Derived terms
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