ملخ

See also: ملح‎

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian *malax (written as Pazend 𐬨𐬀𐬮𐬀𐬐‎ (malak)), borrowed from Bactrian μαλαχο (malaxo), from Proto-Iranian *madaxa; compare Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬜𐬀𐬑𐬀‎ (maδaxa, “grasshopper”), Baluchi مدگ‎ (madag), مذغ‎ (maδaγ), Pashto ملخ‎ (malax, “locust”), Old Armenian loanword մարախ (marax), Ossetian мӕтых (mætyx), Chorasmian mθx. The inherited Southwestern Iranian form is میگ‎ (meyg) (> میگو‎ (meygu)).

Noun
Dari Persian ملخ‎
Iranian Persian ملخ‎
Tajiki Persian малах (malax)

ملخ • (malax) (plural ملخ‌ها‎ (malax-hâ))

  1. (zoology) grasshopper
  2. locust
  3. propeller

Derived terms
  • ملخک‎ (malaxak)

References
  • محمود جعفری دهقی، امیر عمادالدین صدری (پاییز و زمستان ۱۳۹۰)، «وام‌واژه‌های بلخی در پارسی نو» [Bactrian Loanwords in New-Persian]، زبان‌شناخت، پژوهشگاه علوم انسانی و مطالعات فرهنگی، سال دوم، شمارهٔ دوم، صفحه ۳
  • Horn, Paul (1893), “meig”, in Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 1010, page 227
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), “մարախ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 274ab
  • Abajev, V. I. (1973), “mætyx”, in Istoriko-etimologičeskij slovarʹ osetinskovo jazyka [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow, Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, page 180
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