مرغ

Pashto

FWOTD – 18 February 2019

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mraɣ/

Noun

مرغ • (mrağ) m

1. a weight used in bodybuilding
2. a large stone at just the weight that a man can lift, and used in the game or exercise of putting the stone

Declension

declension of مرغ

	singular		plural
direct	مرغ (mrağ)		مرغونه (mrağuna)
oblique	مرغ (mrağ)		مرغونو (mrağuno)
vocative	مرغه (mrağa)		مرغونو (mrağuno)

References

• Raverty, H. G. (1867) “مرغ”, in A dictionary of the Puk'hto, Pus'hto, or language of the Afghans: with remarks on the originality of the language, and its affinity to other oriental tongues, London: Williams & Nortgate
• Pashto English Dictionary

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Iranian *murγ (“bird”) from Proto-Iranian *mr̥gáh (“bird”). Compare Middle Persian [script needed] (mwlw' /⁠murw⁠/), Parthian [Manichaean needed] (mwrg /⁠murγ⁠/), Avestan 𐬨𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬖𐬀 (mər^əγa), Pashto مرغه (mërğë), Ossetian маргъ (marǧ), Baluchi مرگ (murg), Old Armenian սիրամարգ (siramarg) and լորամարգ (loramarg).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [muɾɣ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mʊɾɣ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mʊɾɣ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mʊɾɣ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [muɾɣ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [moɹɢ̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [muɾʁ]

Readings
Classical reading?	murğ
Dari reading?	murğ
Iranian reading?	morğ
Tajik reading?	murġ

• Audio (Iran):

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Noun

Dari	مرغ
Iranian Persian
Tajik	мурғ

مرغ • (morğ) (plural مرغ‌ها (morğ-hâ) or مرغان (morğân))

1. hen
2. (synecdochically) chicken (regardless of sex)
3. (archaic) bird
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3412:

     کاتب آن وحی ز آن آواز مرغ
     برده ظنی کاو بود همباز مرغ

     kâtib-i-ân wahî za ân âvâz-i-murğ
     burda zanni kô buwad hambâz-i-murg

     The writer of the Revelation, from (hearing) the Bird's voice,
     supposed that he was the Bird's equal

Derived terms

• مرغابی (morğâbi)
• تخم مرغ (toxm-e morğ)
• مرغ مگس‌خوار (morğ-e magas-xâr)
• شترمرغ (šotormorğ)

Related terms

• سیمرغ (simorğ)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: mürğ
• → Bengali: মোরগ (mōrog)
• → Chagatai: مرغ
  • Uzbek: murgʻ
• → Ottoman Turkish: مرغ (mürg)
  • Turkish: murg
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਮੁਰਗ (murag)

  Shahmukhi script: مرغ (murġ)