لاغر

Khalaj

Adjective

لاغَر (lâğər)

1. Arabic spelling of lâğər (“meager, slack”)

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian *lāgar, from Old Persian *lagrah, from Proto-Iranian *Hlagráh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hlagʰrás, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ln̥gʷʰrós (“lightweight”). Cognate with Northern Kurdish lawaz, Gurani لاواز (lāwāz).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [lɑː.ɣaɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [lɑː.ɣäɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [lɑː.ɣäɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [lɑː.ɣäɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [lɔː.ɣäɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [lɒː.ɢæɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [lɔ.ʁäɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	lāğar
Dari reading?	lāğar
Iranian reading?	lâğar
Tajik reading?	loġar

Adjective

Dari	لاغر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	лоғар

لاغَر • (lâğar) (comparative لاغَرتَر (lâğar-tar), superlative لاغَرتَرین (lâğar-tarin))

1. skinny; thin; slender; lithe

   Antonym: چاق (čâq, “fat”)

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume V, verse 3629:

     که طمع لاغر کند زرد و ذلیل / نیست او از علت ابدان علیل

     ke tama' lâğar konad zard o zalil / nist u az 'ellat-e abdân 'alil

     For [mere] hope makes him lean, pale, and wretched: he is not ill with bodily ailment.

   • published 1973, فروغ فرخزاد [Forugh Farrokhzad], translated by Hasan Javadi and Susan Sallée (in Another Birth: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad), ایمان بیاوریم به آغاز فصل سرد‎^[2]:

     و من به جفت‌گیری گل‌ها می‌اندیشم / به غنچه‌هایی با ساقه‌های لاغر کم خون

     va man be joft-giri-ye gol-hâ mi-andišam / be ğonče-hâ-yi bâ sâqe-hâ-ye lâğar-e kam-xun

     and I think of the pollination of the flowers / of the buds with thin anemic stems

Inflection

Enclitic-attached forms of لاغر (lâğar)

Basic forms of لاغر (lâğar) bare لاغر (lâğar) ezâfe لاغر (lâğar-e) marked indefinite or relative definite لاغری (lâğar-i)     Predicative forms of لاغر (lâğar) singular plural 1st person (“I am, we are”) لاغرم (lâğaram) لاغریم (lâğarim) 2nd person (“you are”) لاغری (lâğari) لاغرید (lâğarid) لاغرین △ (lâğarin) 3rd person (“he/she/it is, they are”) لاغر است (lâğar ast) لاغره △ (lâğare) لاغرند (lâğarand) لاغرن △ (lâğaran) △ Colloquial.

Derived terms

(verbs)

• لاغر شدن (lâğar šodan)
• لاغر کردن (lâgar kardan)

 

(other)

• لاغری (lâğari)

 

Descendants

• → Middle Armenian: լաղար (laġar)
  • Armenian: լղար (lġar)
• → Azerbaijani: lağər
• → Central Kurdish: له‌ڕ (lerr)
• → Khalaj: lâğər
• → Northern Kurdish: lexer
• → Ottoman Turkish: لاغر (lağar)
  • Turkish: lagar