Central Kurdish

Noun

شاخ ‎(şax)

1. mountain (large mass of earth and rock)

Persian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱak- ‎(“branch”). Cognate with Sanskrit शाखा ‎(śā́khā).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɒx/

Noun

شاخ • ‎(šâx)

1. horn, antler
2. a branch, bough, shoot, sucker, twig
3. the arm, from the tip of the finger to the shoulder
4. the leg, from the groin to the foot
5. a small cut from a main stream
6. the spur of a cock
7. a rib
8. a bit, piece
9. a gusset, gore
10. the forehead
11. the main beam in the roof of a house
12. a cup of wine (from a custom prevailing in Jurjistān, to drink wine out of horns), a goblet, a drinking-horn
13. wine mixed with rose-water
14. a horn wherein they keep civet, a scent-box
15. civet
16. the civet-cat
17. spices, perfumes

Related terms

• شاخی ‎(šâxi)
• شاخه ‎(šâxe)
• تک‌شاخ ‎(tak-šâx)

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “شاخ+shāḵẖ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul