لاک

See also: لاك and لأك

Persian[edit]

A contraction of (lâvak, “kneading trough”), derived with a l < n sound change from Old Iranian *nāwaka-, a diminutive of Proto-Iranian *náHuš (“boat”); doublet of (nâvak, “hopper or feeder of a mill; a small boat”) and (nâve, “kneading trough; a small boat”).^[2]^[3] Cognate with Mazanderani [script needed] (lɔk, “kneading trough”).

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [lɑːk]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [lɑːk]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [lɔːk]

لاک • (lâk)

>? Tat: lak
>? Judeo-Tat: lok
→ Armenian: լաք (lakʻ, “dry measure for cereals; wooden trough”), →? լաք (lakʻ, “garden bed”)
→? Azerbaijani: lək

Hassandoust, Mohammad (2014/2015) Bahman Sarkarati, editor, Farhang-e riše-šenâxti-ye zabân-e Farsi [An Etymological Dictionary of the Persian Language] (in Persian), volume IV: K-Y, Tehran: Academy of Persian Language and Literature, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, page 2504
Lambton, Ann K. (1938) Three Persian dialects, London: Royal Asiatic Society, page 89b
Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “لاك”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 1112

^ Palatecʻi, Gēorg Dpir (1829) “լէք”, in Baṙaran Parskerēn əst kargi haykakan aybubenicʻ [Persian Dictionary in the Order of the Armenian Alphabet] (in Armenian), Constantinople: Boghos Arabian Press, page 167b
^ Eilers, Wilhelm (1974) Die vergleichend-semasiologische Methode in der Orientalistik (Abhandlungen der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse; 1973, Nr. 10)‎^[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz, page 58, footnote 82
^ Asatrian, Garnik, Hakobian, Gohar (2018) “On *-d- > -l- and *-š- > -l- in Western New Iranian”, in Iran and the Caucasus‎^[2], volume 22, number 3, →DOI, page 304, footnote 8