لاک

See also: لاك and لأك

Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
 

Readings
Classical reading? lāk
Dari reading? lāk
Iranian reading? lâk
Tajik reading? lok

Noun

لاک • (lâk)

  1. trough, wooden vessel

Derived terms
  • لاک‌پشت (lâk-pošt, “tortoise”)
  • لاک تراش (lâk-tarâš, “lâk-maker”)

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

References
  • 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
  1. 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
  2. Eilers, Wilhelm (1974) Die vergleichend-semasiologische Methode in der Orientalistik (Abhandlungen der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse; 1973, Nr. 10)‎ (in German), Wiesbaden: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz, page 58, footnote 82
  3. Asatrian, Garnik, Hakobian, Gohar (2018) “On *-d- > -l- and *-š- > -l- in Western New Iranian”, in Iran and the Caucasus‎, volume 22, number 3, →DOI, page 304, footnote 8
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