قشنگ

See also: فشنگ

Khalaj

Adjective

قَشَنگ (qəşəng)

  1. Arabic spelling of qəşəng (“beautiful, pretty, handsome”)

Persian

Etymology

From Sogdian ʾγšnk- ((ə)xšank, “beautiful”), related to Proto-Iranian *gr̥šáti (“to rejoice, be happy”).[1]

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [qä.ʃǽŋɡ]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [qä.ʃǽŋɡ]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [qä.ʃǽŋɡ̥]

Readings
Classical reading? qašang
Dari reading? qašang
Iranian reading? ğašang
Tajik reading? qašang
  • (Hamadan) IPA(key): [ɢeˈʃæŋɡ]

Adjective
Dari قشنگ
Iranian Persian
Tajik қашанг

قَشَنْگ • (ğašang) (comparative قَشَنْگ‌تَر (ğašang-tar), superlative قَشَنْگ‌تَرین (ğašang-tarin))

  1. beautiful
  2. lovely
  3. pretty

Inflection
    Predicative forms of قشنگ (qašang)
singular plural
1st person
(“I am, we are”)		 قشنگم
(qašangam)		 قشنگیم
(qašangim)
2nd person
(“you are”)		 قشنگی
(qašangi)		 قشنگید
(qašangid)
قشنگین △
(qašangin)
3rd person
(“he/she/it is, they are”)		 قشنگ است
(qašang ast)
قشنگه △
(qašange)		 قشنگند
(qašangand)
قشنگن △
(qašangan)
△ Colloquial.

Synonyms

Descendants
  • → Azerbaijani: qəşəng
    • → Armenian: ղաշանգ (ġašang)
  • → Khalaj: qəşəng
  • → Urdu: قَشَن٘گ (qaśaṅg)

References
  1. Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2007) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 3, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 195

Urdu

Etymology

From Classical Persian قَشَنْگ (qašang, “beautiful, lovely”), ultimately from Sogdian ʾγšnk- ((ə)xšank, “beautiful”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

قَشَن٘گ • (qaśaṅg) (Hindi spelling क़शंग)

  1. attractive, good-looking; beautiful
  2. pleasant, agreeable
  3. excellent, superb

References
  • “قشنگ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “قشنگ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
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