{"slug":"the-canonical-morgh-index","verification":{"valid":true,"entries":10,"head":"1105829377834cb7292d83b6ca344d09a767f98e0a5c26482a1d3d473643b7b4"},"count":10,"sources":[{"id":"s-dehkhoda","type":"dictionary","url":"https://dehkhoda.ut.ac.ir/","title":"Dehkhoda, Loghatnāmeh (Persian dictionary), entries مرغ / مرغابی / شترمرغ","quote":"مرغ: پرنده؛ در تداول، ماکیان. مرغابی: مرغ آبی.","summary":"bird; fowl; (modern usage) hen, chicken — the general Persian word for bird, narrowed in everyday speech to the domestic fowl.","claim_ids":["c-narrowed","c-morghabi","c-shotormorgh","c-filmorgh","c-haqq","c-conceit","c-khorus","c-juje","c-khorus-jangi","c-saqqa","c-mahikhar","c-mishmorgh","c-mina","c-regional","c-glosses-register"],"accessed_at":"2026-07-23T00:00:00.000Z","prev":"genesis","hash":"45d642b5f357925493e93c55669e1a1425fc00b843078a24433891d7a0c16eba","publisher":"Dehkhoda · Loghatnāmeh","headword":"مرغ","translit":"morgh","pos":"noun"},{"id":"s-steingass","type":"dictionary","url":"https://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/steingass/","title":"F. Steingass, A Comprehensive Persian–English Dictionary (1892)","quote":"murgh, A bird, fowl, hen; murghābi, a duck, water-fowl; shutur-murgh, an ostrich.","summary":"a bird; a fowl — the Persian–English gloss that preserves both senses side by side.","claim_ids":["c-narrowed","c-morghabi","c-shotormorgh","c-daryayi","c-khorus","c-glosses-register"],"accessed_at":"2026-07-23T00:00:00.000Z","prev":"45d642b5f357925493e93c55669e1a1425fc00b843078a24433891d7a0c16eba","hash":"ca5cb8ea78dd8a7615f0be0acbe11f7a48bf507cc151073420ae531dfc559f78","publisher":"Steingass · Persian–English Dictionary","headword":"مرغ","translit":"murgh","pos":"noun"},{"id":"s-hasandust","type":"dictionary","url":"https://apll.ir/","title":"M. Hasandust, An Etymological Dictionary of the Persian Language (Academy of Persian Language and Literature)","quote":"مرغ < فارسی میانه murw «پرنده».","summary":"etymology of morgh: from Middle Persian murw, from Old Iranian *mṛga- 'bird'.","claim_ids":["c-murw","c-conceit"],"accessed_at":"2026-07-23T00:00:00.000Z","prev":"ca5cb8ea78dd8a7615f0be0acbe11f7a48bf507cc151073420ae531dfc559f78","hash":"d1c2f09246a01789310a5fcae0c46f52a3a49b51e20d0ae1e15eff25ea52b34e","publisher":"Hasandust · Etymological Dictionary of Persian","headword":"مرغ","translit":"morɣ","pos":"noun"},{"id":"s-mackenzie","type":"dictionary","url":"https://archive.org/details/AConcisePahlaviDictionary","title":"D. N. MacKenzie, A Concise Pahlavi Dictionary (1971)","quote":"murw: bird.","summary":"Middle Persian murw: bird — the ancestor form, still meaning every bird in the sky.","claim_ids":["c-murw"],"accessed_at":"2026-07-23T00:00:00.000Z","prev":"d1c2f09246a01789310a5fcae0c46f52a3a49b51e20d0ae1e15eff25ea52b34e","hash":"0b8e58d57b539157b11c08643c051f8b8aa2bd46784d6b2e4ca097781ff41697","publisher":"MacKenzie · A Concise Pahlavi Dictionary","headword":"murw","translit":"murw","pos":"noun"},{"id":"s-attar","type":"book","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conference_of_the_Birds","title":"ʿAṭṭār, Manṭiq al-Ṭayr (The Conference of the Birds), c. 1177","quote":"Thirty birds cross seven valleys seeking the Simorgh, and find that si morgh — thirty birds — is what they already were.","summary":"Attar builds the allegory on reading Sīmorgh as si morgh, \"thirty birds\".","claim_ids":["c-simorgh-pun"],"accessed_at":"2026-07-23T00:00:00.000Z","prev":"0b8e58d57b539157b11c08643c051f8b8aa2bd46784d6b2e4ca097781ff41697","hash":"de331a9e679850bba785df8d069753adfd85508d4fe18fd5e920523c014dcdad","author":"ʿAṭṭār of Nishapur","year":"c. 1177","work":"Manṭiq al-Ṭayr — The Conference of the Birds"},{"id":"s-iranica-simorgh","type":"encyclopedia","url":"https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/simorg","title":"Encyclopædia Iranica, \"Sīmorḡ\"","quote":"The name goes back to Avestan mərəγō saēnō, Pahlavi sēnmurw; the popular reading si morgh \"thirty birds\" is a later literary etymology.","summary":"A fabulous, benevolent bird of Iranian legend; nests in the Tree of All Seeds; foster-parent of the hero Zāl in the Shāhnāmeh.","claim_ids":["c-simorgh-etym"],"accessed_at":"2026-07-23T00:00:00.000Z","prev":"de331a9e679850bba785df8d069753adfd85508d4fe18fd5e920523c014dcdad","hash":"ef1faec64b107327f37de85d2bd75e59c220e9788e8f7bf32f8d1de655da5e63","publisher":"ENCYCLOPÆDIA IRANICA","entry":"SĪMORǤ"},{"id":"s-nima","type":"book","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nima_Yushij","title":"Nimā Yushij, \"Morgh-e Āmin\" (\"The Amen Bird\")","quote":"مرغ آمین در گشوده‌است / می‌دهد پیغام...","summary":"The mythical prayer-granting bird of Nimā's most famous long poem — the Amen-chicken of modern Persian verse.","claim_ids":["c-amin"],"accessed_at":"2026-07-23T00:00:00.000Z","prev":"ef1faec64b107327f37de85d2bd75e59c220e9788e8f7bf32f8d1de655da5e63","hash":"8bf105d3c6a2fbab291ccbeef275bb09a7f9d9ea2a95ee4675735351b7720e43","author":"Nimā Yushij","work":"Morgh-e Āmin — The Amen Bird","year":"1951"},{"id":"s-morghesahar","type":"book","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgh-e_Sahar","title":"\"Morgh-e Sahar\" (\"Bird of Dawn\"), lyrics by Malek o-Shoʿarā Bahār","quote":"مرغ سحر ناله سر کن / داغ مرا تازه‌تر کن","summary":"The most beloved protest song in Iranian history — a plea to the dawn-bird to sigh and break the cage of night.","claim_ids":["c-sahar"],"accessed_at":"2026-07-23T00:00:00.000Z","prev":"8bf105d3c6a2fbab291ccbeef275bb09a7f9d9ea2a95ee4675735351b7720e43","hash":"d0282fe1ea71735d961e79d2602f439b27f528f30163cbab958950b8a7412f6f","author":"Malek o-Shoʿarā Bahār (lyrics)","work":"Morgh-e Sahar — Bird of Dawn","year":"1927"},{"id":"s-amsal","type":"book","url":"https://dehkhoda.ut.ac.ir/","title":"ʿAli-Akbar Dehkhoda, Amsāl o Hekam (Proverbs and Aphorisms), entry شترمرغ","quote":"شترمرغ را گفتند بار ببر، گفت مرغم؛ گفتند بپر، گفت شترم.","summary":"The proverb collection where the shotormorgh — the camel-chicken — refuses to fly because it is a camel, and refuses to carry loads because it is a bird.","author":"ʿAli-Akbar Dehkhoda","publisher":"","date":"","claim_ids":["c-shotormorgh-proverb"],"found_by":"model","extra":{},"accessed_at":"2026-07-23T21:44:44.408Z","link_status":"ok","quote_status":"unverified","prev":"d0282fe1ea71735d961e79d2602f439b27f528f30163cbab958950b8a7412f6f","hash":"c6962075e2c69b714caf8dca5f3d18c7fcb1cc931099d685b73b40951ed36a64","work":"Amsāl o Hekam — Proverbs and Aphorisms"},{"id":"s-amid","type":"dictionary","url":"https://vajehyab.com/","title":"Hasan Amid, Farhang-e Amid (Amid Persian Dictionary), entries مرغ عشق / مرغ مگس‌خوار / مینا","quote":"مرغ عشق: پرنده‌ای کوچک از راستهٔ طوطی‌سانان. مرغ مگس‌خوار: پرنده‌ای بسیار کوچک...","summary":"hen; fowl; bird — the modern desk dictionary's confirmation that the sky is still chickens.","author":"","publisher":"Farhang-e Amid","date":"","claim_ids":["c-eshgh","c-magaskhar","c-mina"],"found_by":"model","extra":{},"accessed_at":"2026-07-23T21:44:49.728Z","link_status":"ok","quote_status":"unverified","prev":"c6962075e2c69b714caf8dca5f3d18c7fcb1cc931099d685b73b40951ed36a64","hash":"1105829377834cb7292d83b6ca344d09a767f98e0a5c26482a1d3d473643b7b4","headword":"مرغ","translit":"morgh","pos":"noun"}]}