گرگ

See also: کرک and گرک

Baluchi

from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebh₂- (“to grab, seize”). Cognates include Persian (gereftan), Central Kurdish گرتن (girtin), Sanskrit गृह्णाति (gṛhṇāti, “he seizes”).

گرگ • (girag)

From Middle Persian 𐭢𐭥𐭫𐭢 (gʿlg /⁠gurg⁠/, “wolf”), from Old Persian 𐎺𐎼𐎣 (v-r-k /⁠varka-⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *wŕ̥kah (compare Avestan 𐬬𐬆𐬵𐬭𐬐𐬀 (vəhrka), Sogdian [script needed] (wyrk- /⁠wərk⁠/), Baluchi (gurk), Mazanderani ورگ (verg), Northern Kurdish gur, gurg, Ossetian бирӕгъ (biræǧ)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wŕ̥kas (“wolf”) (compare Sanskrit वृक (vṛ́ka)), from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos (compare English wolf).

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ɡʊɾɡ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ɡʊɾɡ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ɡuɾɡ̥]


Iranian Persian	گرگ
Dari	گرگ
Tajik	гург

گرگ • (gorg) (plural گرگ‌ها (gorg-hâ) or گرگان (gorgân))

a wolf
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3109:
  از کجا آموختی این ای بزرگ / گفت ای شاه جهان از حال گرگ
  az kujâ âmôxti ên ay buzurg / guft ay šâh-i-jahân az hâl-i-gurg
  Whence didst thou learn this, O eminent one?” “O King of the world,” he replied, “from the fate of the wolf.”
(figurative) a social or sexual predator
― un birun por-e gorg-e! ― There are lots of predators out there!

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