گنگ

Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (gwng /⁠gung⁠/), [Book Pahlavi needed] (gng /⁠gung⁠/, “dumb, mute”).^[1] Perhaps developed from the sense "to mock, hum", usually connected to Sanskrit गुञ्जति (guñjati, “buzz, hum”).

گنگ • (gung / gong) (Tajik spelling гунг)

1. (literary) mute (a person unable to speak)

گنگ • (gung / gong) (Tajik spelling гунг)

1. (mathematics, arithmetic, number theory) irrational
2. (obsolete) crooked, hurled, of a bent back
3. (literary) mute (of the speaking of a person)

• عدد گنگ (adad-i gung / adad-e gong, “irrational number”)

• → Old Anatolian Turkish: [Term?] (“conduit”)
  • Azerbaijani: küng
    • → Armenian: քունգ (kʻung)
  • Ottoman Turkish: كنك (künk)
    • Turkish: künk
    • → Albanian: qynke, çungu
    • → Armenian: քիւնկ (kʻiwnk)
    • → Aromanian: ciunge, ciungu
    • → Bulgarian: кюнк (kjunk), кю́нец (kjúnec)
    • → Greek: κιούγκι (kioúgki)
    • → Macedonian: ќунк (ḱunk)
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: ћу̏нак, чу̏нак

      Latin script: ćȕnak, čȕnak

• → Turkmen: güň (mute and deaf at the same time)

Borrowed from English gang.

گنگ • (gang)

1. (Iran, slang, often humorous) aura

   گنگش بالاس ― gangeš bâlâs ― Their (sg.) aura is high.

گنگ • (gang)

1. (Iran, slang, often humorous) cool, high-aura

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

گنگ • (gang) (Tajik spelling ганг)

1. (obsolete) island

Borrowed from Sanskrit गङ्गा (gaṅgā).

گنگ • (gang) (Tajik spelling Ганг)

1. the Ganges

• → Arabic: الْكَنْك (al-kank)
• → Ottoman Turkish: كنك (Geng)
  • Turkish: Geng

گنگ • (gang) (Tajik spelling Ганг)

1. (obsolete) Tashkent

   Synonyms: تاشکند (tāškand / tâškand), (Classical) چاچ (čāč / čâč)

2. (obsolete) Jerusalem
3. (historical) the name of a certain mythological city; fully گنگ دژ (gang-i diž / gang-e dež), گنگ دز (gang-i diz / gang-e dez), or گنگ بهشت (gang-i bihišt / gang-e behešt)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “گنگ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Nourai, Ali (2011), An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 137
• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864), “گنگ”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, pages 1037–1038