فنک

See also: فنك

Persian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Mongolic *hüne-

Proto-Mongolic *-gan

Proto-Mongolic *hünegender.

Persian فنک

Borrowed from a Southern Mongolic dialect of Middle Mongol ancestral to Mongghul funige (“fox”), from Proto-Mongolic *hünegen (“fox”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [fa.ˈnak]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [fä.nǽk]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [fä.nǽk]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [fä.nǽk]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [fä.nǽk]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [fæ.nǽkʲ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [fä.nǽk]

Readings
Classical reading?	fanak
Dari reading?	fanak
Iranian reading?	fanak
Tajik reading?	fanak

Noun

فنک • (fanak)

1. fennec
2. (obsolete) marten

Descendants

• → Arabic: فَنَك (fanak), فَنَج (fanaj) (see there for further descendants)

References

• Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “فنک”, 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, page 694
• Wikander, Stig (1968) “A Central Asian Loanword in Arthaśāstra”, in J. C. Heesterman, G. H. Schokker, V. I. Subramoniam, editors, Pratidanam: Indian, Iranian, and Indo-European studies presented to Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus Kuiper on his sixtieth birthday (Janua Linguarum. Series Maior)‎^[2], volume 34, The Hague · Paris: Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 272 fn. 11