Talk:qalmaqal

It is from Arabic قال مقال from قال + مقال. Kurdish, Persian, Mazandarani qāl maqāl are all form Arabic.--Calak (talk) 21:18, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
 * you're right., can you create the Arabic, if it is not a sum of parts? --Vahag (talk) 08:21, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
 * It is in (more luck in search with space instead of ZWNJ),, . This is however based on , longer form of the  we have created graciously by our Düsseldorf IP, which exists also as 🇨🇬, and I have also a few hits for  – definite  because otherwise you only get Persian hits, which alone shows that these Caucasian forms are presumably from Persian, as also that it does not go without the  in Arabic. Fay Freak (talk) 10:35, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I think it's safe to assume that quoting Shanidze for the Georgian term will be okay. I'll change the etymology of, I also think Armenian one could well come from Persian and not Azerbaijani. (BTW Thank you for this info Fey, Calak). -Solarkoid (talk) 16:45, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
 * You can say the Georgian is from Persian, as it is ultimately from Persian, but I believe Persian (and Arabic borrowings) into Armenian and Georgian dialects all came via Turkic. There were almost no ethnic Persians in our lands during the rule of Muslim Persian empires. The day-to-day contact was with the Turks, nowadays renamed "Azerbaijanis". Direct borrowings are possible in learned translations. --Vahag (talk) 19:00, 3 September 2020 (UTC)