ᠵᠡᠷᠭᠡ

Middle Mongol

Etymology

    From Proto-Mongolic *ǰerge.

    Noun

    ᠵᠡᠷᠭᠡ (ǰerge)

    1. row, rank

    Descendants

    • Manchu: [script needed] (jergi)
    • Chagatai: جرکا (jrkā), جرگه (jrgh), جرڭا, جرْڭه, چرگه (črgh), چارگه (čārgh)
    • Old Anatolian Turkish:
      • Azerbaijani: cərgə
      • Northern Kurdish: cêrge
    • Tuvan: черге (çerge)
    • Kumyk: жерге (jerge), ерге (yerge)
    • Chuvash: йӗрке (jĕrk̬e) (via Kypchak)
    • Kyrgyz: жерге (jerge)
    • ? Southern Altai: јаргы (ǰargï)
    • ? Bashkir: ниргә (nirgə)
    • ? Tatar: ниргә (nirgä)
      • Chuvash: нирке (nirk̬e)
      • Eastern Mari: нерге (ńerge)
    • Persian: جرگه (jarge)
    • Pashto: جرګه (jarga(h))
      • Hindi: जर्गा (jargā)
      • Urdu: جرگہ
    • Old East Slavic: черга (čerga) (via Turkic)

    References

    • Sevortjan, E. V.; Levitskaja, L. S. (1989), “җәргә”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 4, Moscow: Nauka, pages 25-26
    • Doerfer, Gerhard (1963), Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission)‎[1] (in German), volume 1, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 291–293
    • Sanžejev, G. D.; Orlovskaja, M. N.; Ševernina, Z. V. (2016), Etimologičeskij slovarʹ mongolʹskix jazykov: v 3 t. [Etymological dictionary of Mongolic languages: in 3 vols.] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 69