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There is nothing after this.\n\n[[embed:source:s-mackenzie]]\n\n[[embed:source:s-dehkhoda]]\n\n## KINGDOM: مرغ — DOMAIN I: THE FARMYARD (the chickens that are chickens)\n\n- **مرغ (morgh)** — hen. The prime mover. The chicken from which all chickens proceed.\n- **خروس (khorus)** — rooster. Says قوقولی‌قوقو, which is objectively better than \"cock-a-doodle-doo.\"\n- **جوجه (juje)** — chick. Also what you call someone you love. Also what you call someone you're about to fight. Context-dependent chicken.\n- **مرغ کُرک (morgh-e kork)** — the brooding hen. Sits on eggs. Radiates menace.\n- **خروس جنگی (khorus-e jangi)** — fighting rooster. Also slang for a hotheaded person. You know one.\n- **مرغ بهاری (morgh-e bahāri)** — spring pullet. A chicken with its whole life ahead of it.\n\n## DOMAIN II: THE AQUATIC CHICKENS (chickens, but wet)\n\n- **مرغابی (morghābi)** — duck. Literally \"water-chicken.\" Persian saw a duck, ran the classifier, got \"chicken (moist),\" and shipped it.\n- **مرغ دریایی (morgh-e daryāyi)** — seagull. \"Sea-chicken.\" Steals your fries with chicken-adjacent audacity.\n- **مرغ سقا (morgh-e saqqā)** — pelican. \"Water-carrier chicken.\" A chicken with a bucket. Job-having chicken.\n- **مرغ ماهی‌خوار (morgh-e māhi-khār)** — heron. \"Fish-eating chicken.\" Stands in rivers. Contemplates.\n\n## DOMAIN III: THE MEGAFAUNA CHICKENS (chickens at incorrect scale)\n\n- **شترمرغ (shotormorgh)** — ostrich. \"Camel-chicken.\" The crown jewel of the entire system. Persian encountered a 300-pound bird and, with total confidence, filed it as a chicken that has been camel-ed. There is also a proverb: the shotormorgh, asked to fly, says \"I'm a camel.\" Asked to carry loads, says \"I'm a bird.\" The camel-chicken is not just a word — it is a personality type. You work with a shotormorgh.\n- **فیل‌مرغ (fil-morgh)** — turkey. \"Elephant-chicken.\" The scaling law continues. Somewhere the system caps out before \"whale-chicken,\" and honestly that shows restraint.\n- **میش‌مرغ (mish-morgh)** — great bustard. \"Ewe-chicken.\" Sheep-chicken. Endangered, majestic, taxonomically insulting.\n\n## DOMAIN IV: THE COMPANION CHICKENS (emotional infrastructure)\n\n- **مرغ عشق (morgh-e eshgh)** — lovebird/budgie. \"Love-chicken.\" Sold in pairs because a lone love-chicken is a tragedy.\n- **مرغ مینا (morgh-e minā)** — myna. The chicken that learns your secrets and repeats them to guests.\n\n## DOMAIN V: THE METAPHYSICAL CHICKENS (this is where it gets serious)\n\n- **مرغ حق (morgh-e haq)** — scops owl. \"The chicken of Truth.\" Folk tradition says its night call is \"haq… haq…\" — truth… truth… — crying until dawn. Persian assigned the concept of Truth itself to a small owl and called it a chicken. No further notes.\n- **مرغ سحر (morgh-e sahar)** — nightingale, \"chicken of the dawn.\" Title of the most beloved protest song in Iranian history. Crowds of thousands have wept singing about the dawn-chicken. I am not being flippant. Look it up. It will move you.\n- **مرغ آمین (morgh-e āmin)** — the \"Amen-chicken,\" a mythical bird that flies overhead granting prayers, immortalized by the poet Nima Yushij. 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