ژدوار

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Persian[edit]

ژدوار

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Northwestern Iranian, whence borrowing Sanskrit जडुवार (jaḍuvāra), जडुपार (jaḍupāra), जदुवार (jaduvāra),[1] possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet- (resin, gum), also found as ژد (žad, resin, gum), as well as ـوار (-vâr, suffix denoting something having a characteristic).[2][3]

Pronunciation[edit]

 

Readings
Classical reading? žaḏwār
Dari reading? žadwār
Iranian reading? žadvâr
Tajik reading? žadvor

Noun[edit]

ژدوار (žadvâr)

  1. zedoary (Curcuma zedoaria)

Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) “jaduvāra-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume III, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 206
  2. ^ Edelʹman, D. I. (2011) “*ǰatu-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 4, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 144-145
  3. ^ Monchi-Zadeh, Davoud (1990) Wörter aus Xurāsān und ihre Herkunft (Acta Iranica; 29)‎[2] (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 87–88 Nr. 260