چغندر

Persian

Alternative forms

  • چقندر (čoqondar, čoqondor), چکندر (čukundar, čukundur), چگندر (čugundar, čugundur), چندر (čundar, čundur)

Etymology

Bailey derives from Proto-Iranian *čak- (“be pointed, horned”) (compare Khotanese [script needed] (cakurīka-, “wood sorrel”), Persian چکش (čakoš, “hammer”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kek-, *kenk-, *keg-, *keng- (“be pointed; hook, peg”), on which see Pokorny.[1][2]

An improbable origin from Old Armenian ճակնդեղ (čakndeł) has also been suggested.

Cognate with Kurdish çewender, چەوەندەر (çewender), Gurani چۆنڎەری (čōnḓarī), Talysh чәғынде (“beet”); çəğınde, Northern Kurdish çarkindêle (“beet; carrot”) and the Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian ճակնդեղ (čakndeł, “beet”), Old Georgian ჭაკუნტელი (č̣aḳunṭeli), Chinese 莙薘/莙荙 (jūndá, “chard”).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰʊ.ɣʊn̪.d̪ʊ́ɾ], [t͡ʃʰʊ.ɣʊn̪.d̪ǽɾ]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰʊ.ɣʊn̪.d̪ʊ́ɾ], [t͡ʃʰʊ.ɣʊn̪.d̪ǽɾ]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰu.ɣun̪.d̪úɾ], [t͡ʃʰu.ɣun̪.d̪ǽɾ]
  • (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰo.ɢon̪.d̪ǽɹ], [t͡ʃʰo.ɢon̪.d̪úːɹ]
  • (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰu.ʁun̪.d̪úɾ], [t͡ʃʰu.ʁun̪.d̪ǽɾ]

Readings
Classical reading? čuğundur, čuğundar
Dari reading? čuğundur, čuğundar
Iranian reading? čoğondar, čoğondur
Tajik reading? čuġundur, čuġundar

Noun

چغندر • (classical čuğundar, čuğundur, iranian čoğondar, čoğondur)

  1. beet

Descendants

  • → Pashto: چغندر (čuğundar)
  • → Azerbaijani: çuğundur
  • → Gujarati: ચુકનદાર (cukandār)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: چوكندر (çükündür, çökündür, çügündür, çükündur, çükundur)
    • Turkish: çükündür, çökündür
    • → Bulgarian: чукунду́р (čukundúr)
    • → Ladino: chukundur
    • → Middle Armenian: չքնտուր (čʻkʻntur)
    • → Serbo-Croatian: (Syrmia, obsolete)
      Cyrillic script: чуку̀ндрук
      Latin script: čukùndruk
  • → Bashkir: сөгөлдөр (sögöldör)
  • → Chuvash: чĕкĕнтĕр (čĕkĕntĕr)
  • → Turkmen: şugundyr
  • → Tatar: чөгендер (çögender)
  • → Karachay-Balkar: чюгюндюр (çügündür)
  • → Hindi: चुक़न्दर (cuqandar), चुकंदर (cukandar)
  • → Urdu: چقندر (cuqandar)
  • → Lezgi: чугъундур (čuġundur)

References

  1. Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 97
  2. Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 537–538

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