{"slug":"the-canonical-morgh-index","verification":{"valid":true,"entries":10,"head":"fa73924f619a66ab8db3864e0f3e1afd6c46a09ef8ff20825f7edbd232318f3e"},"count":10,"sources":[{"id":"s-dehkhoda","type":"reference","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":"Standard Persian dictionary: morgh = bird, and colloquially domestic fowl; morghābi = water-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":"19877432a521ba14d053ad3f5bfb54a32dd4c2fce1a996404d3ed515b28f16fd"},{"id":"s-steingass","type":"reference","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":"Lexicon glosses morgh as bird/fowl/hen and the -morgh compounds (duck, ostrich) as fowl compounds.","claim_ids":["c-narrowed","c-morghabi","c-shotormorgh","c-daryayi","c-khorus","c-glosses-register"],"accessed_at":"2026-07-23T00:00:00.000Z","prev":"19877432a521ba14d053ad3f5bfb54a32dd4c2fce1a996404d3ed515b28f16fd","hash":"93c38d70b210c39adb5e7bd1a3ef2191888708ab780d3b5048218b59fde0b57d"},{"id":"s-hasandust","type":"reference","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":"Etymological dictionary: Persian morgh descends from Middle Persian murw, \"bird\".","claim_ids":["c-murw","c-conceit"],"accessed_at":"2026-07-23T00:00:00.000Z","prev":"93c38d70b210c39adb5e7bd1a3ef2191888708ab780d3b5048218b59fde0b57d","hash":"07868e96c7555a749ea472385bab5abe2757eb9985cea8cf1176f64560f0a88d"},{"id":"s-mackenzie","type":"reference","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 of New Persian morgh.","claim_ids":["c-murw"],"accessed_at":"2026-07-23T00:00:00.000Z","prev":"07868e96c7555a749ea472385bab5abe2757eb9985cea8cf1176f64560f0a88d","hash":"035babb94953ff438175750fe3d6e7aa64290a87e90bb950b0468ed0cca8bac6"},{"id":"s-attar","type":"primary-text","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 complete the journey and perceive that they themselves are the Sīmorgh (si morgh = \"thirty birds\").","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":"035babb94953ff438175750fe3d6e7aa64290a87e90bb950b0468ed0cca8bac6","hash":"3c67c7b2a8970e4c5f1bb3dc7990363841062d55e02ee14048ead55b0483c504"},{"id":"s-iranica-simorgh","type":"reference","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":"Scholarly etymology: Sīmorgh is from Avestan saēna-bird / Pahlavi sēnmurw; \"thirty birds\" is a folk/literary pun, not the historical origin.","claim_ids":["c-simorgh-etym"],"accessed_at":"2026-07-23T00:00:00.000Z","prev":"3c67c7b2a8970e4c5f1bb3dc7990363841062d55e02ee14048ead55b0483c504","hash":"598271ba503571ac4f45f41bfb522bb0d6f4776ba2f454fade61d17f2fd29316"},{"id":"s-nima","type":"primary-text","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":"Nima Yushij's poem names a mythical bird, the \"Amen bird\" (morgh-e āmin).","claim_ids":["c-amin"],"accessed_at":"2026-07-23T00:00:00.000Z","prev":"598271ba503571ac4f45f41bfb522bb0d6f4776ba2f454fade61d17f2fd29316","hash":"0bddff5fdeddfa3af6abc5085418cf783ccfe81d843e606a52ae37996542cc26"},{"id":"s-morghesahar","type":"primary-text","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":"Iranian tasnif whose title means \"bird of dawn\" (morgh-e sahar).","claim_ids":["c-sahar"],"accessed_at":"2026-07-23T00:00:00.000Z","prev":"0bddff5fdeddfa3af6abc5085418cf783ccfe81d843e606a52ae37996542cc26","hash":"9a669762dfefb673ba9f1fc022d7904d27d6ad7dbb0d69180c51acc4dda1c9a1"},{"id":"s-amsal","type":"other","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":"Dehkhoda's proverb collection records the shotormorgh proverb: asked to carry, it claims to be a bird; asked to fly, a camel.","author":"","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":"9a669762dfefb673ba9f1fc022d7904d27d6ad7dbb0d69180c51acc4dda1c9a1","hash":"4ea1dc1224d6209f34344677217202010115120dd22a4c0c0a169ab341542dd1"},{"id":"s-amid","type":"other","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":"Standard modern Persian dictionary attesting morgh-e eshgh (lovebird/budgerigar) and morgh-e magas-khvār (hummingbird) as lexical entries.","author":"","publisher":"","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":"4ea1dc1224d6209f34344677217202010115120dd22a4c0c0a169ab341542dd1","hash":"fa73924f619a66ab8db3864e0f3e1afd6c46a09ef8ff20825f7edbd232318f3e"}]}