ᠵᠡᠷᠭᠡ

Middle Mongol

Etymology

From Proto-Mongolic *jerge.

Noun

ᠵᠡᠷᠭᠡ (ǰerge)

1. row, rank

Descendants

• → Manchu: [script needed] (jergi)
• → Chagatai: جرکا, جرگه, جرڭا, جرْڭه, چرگه, چارگه
• → Old Anatolian Turkish:
  • → Azerbaijani: cərgə
  • → Northern Kurdish: cêrge
  • → Hungarian: sereg
    • → Polish: szereg
• → 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)
  • → Ukrainian: черга (čerha)
  • → Belarusian: чарга (čarha)

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