زنگ

Etymology 1
Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and with Iranian borrowings in 🇨🇬, and Caucasian languages such as  🇨🇬,.

Perhaps ultimately from and cognate with 🇨🇬. For the sense development compare the meanings "cancer", "disease of plants" found in some of the cognates.

Noun

 * 1) rust

Etymology 2
Cognate with 🇨🇬. Compare the Iranian borrowings: 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,.

Perhaps ultimately an Inner Asian Wanderwort from. Compare 🇨🇬 whence modern 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬; all perhaps from.

Noun

 * 1) bell
 * 2)  ring, buzz
 * 1)  ring, buzz
 * 1)  ring, buzz

Etymology 3
From, reconstructible based on attested 🇨🇬. Beyond this, it is probably related to 🇨🇬, the name for an East African region in the first century AD, and to 🇨🇬, the Greek name of a cape in what is now southern Somalia. It may ultimately be the name of some local group.

Proper noun

 * 1)  the “Land of the Blacks”; Sub-Saharan East Africa; Abyssinia (in the vague sense); Zanj
 * 2)  Zanzibar

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) rust
 * 2) a small bell
 * 3) blackness