LHMA

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Middle Persian

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Alternative forms

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  • [script needed] (nʾn' /⁠nān⁠/) (Book Pahlavi)
  • 𐫗𐫀𐫗 (nʾn /⁠nān⁠/) (Manichaean)

Etymology

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From Old Persian [Term?], from Proto-Iranian *nagna- (compare Sogdian [script needed] (nγn- /⁠naγn-⁠/, bread), Baluchi نگن (nagan), Pashto [script needed] (naγan), Manichaean Parthian 𐫗𐫃𐫗 (ngn /⁠naγn⁠/), Khotanese [script needed] (nāṃji), and possibly the Old Armenian loanword նկան (nkan)); from Proto-Indo-Iranian [Term?] (compare Sanskrit नग्नहु (nagnahu, ferment, a drug used for fermenting spirituous liquor)). Further origin is unclear, but may stem from Proto-Iranian *ni-kana- (buried or laid under hot ashes), from Proto-Indo-European *ní (inside, down) + Proto-Indo-Iranian *kanH- (to dig). Another theory derives the term from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (bare, naked), in the sense "plain bread".

Logogram from Aramaic 𐡋𐡇𐡌𐡀 (laḥmā [lḥmʾ]).

Cognate to Proto-Uralic [Term?] and Proto-Yeniseian [Term?].

Noun

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LHMA (LHMA /nān/)

  1. (Book Pahlavi) bread
  2. (Book Pahlavi) food

Descendants

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  • Classical Persian: نان (nān)

References

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    Bailey, H. W. (1979) “nāṃji”, in Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 179b
  • Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 418-9
  • Harmatta, János (1953) “Three Iranian Words for ‘Bread’”, in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae[1], volume 3, number 3, pages 245–283
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “nān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 58
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[2] (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 6