سگ

From Middle Persian [script needed] (sak), from Old Persian 𐏂𐎣 (çaka-), from West Iranian *spaka "dog-like, relating to dogs" (compare Old Median σπάκα, Kurdish se, seg, and Old Armenian ասպակ (aspak, “dog”), a borrowing from Median), from Proto-Iranian *ĉwā́ (compare Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬁‎ (spā)), Pashto سپی‎ (spëy)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ĉwā́ (compare Sanskrit श्वन् (śvā́)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ.

• IPA^(key): [sæɡ]

سگ • (sag) (plural سگ‌ها‎ (sag-hâ) or سگان‎ (sagân))

1. dog

   سگ من تندتر از سگ تو می‌دوه.‎

   Sag-e man tond-tar az sag-e to mi-dave.

   My dog runs faster than yours.

• سگی‎ (sagi)
• توله‌سگ‎ (tule-sag)

• Perixanjan, Anait (1993) Materialy k etimologičeskomu slovarju drevnearmjanskovo jazyka. Častʹ I [Materials for the Etymological Dictionary of the Old Armenian Language. Part 1] (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 20