Where does “زاق” come from?
زاق (Persian) comes from Proto-Iranian *zanH-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian ȷ́ānáHti, from Proto-Indo-European *ȷ́ānáHti, from Proto-Indo-European ǵneh₃- — to know.
زاق (Persian): the young of anything
Ancestry of “زاق”, step by step