𐎿𐎣𐎠 𐏐 𐎫𐎹𐎑𐎹 𐏐 𐎱𐎼𐎭𐎼𐎹

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Old Persian[edit]

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Reliefs depicting the soldiers of the Achaemenid army, Xerxes I tomb, circa 480 BCE. The Achaemenids referred to all nomads to their north as Saka, and divided them into three categories: The Sakā tyai paradraya ("beyond the sea"), the Sakā tigraxaudā ("with pointed caps"), and the Sakā haumavargā ("who lay Haoma around").[1]

Etymology[edit]

Literally means "Scythians who are across the Sea", from 𐎿𐎣𐎠 (s-k-a /⁠Sakā⁠/, β€œScythian, Sacaean”) + 𐎫𐎹𐎑𐎹 (t-y-i-y /⁠tayaiy⁠/, β€œwho, which”) + 𐎱𐎼𐎭𐎼𐎹 (p-r-d-r-y /⁠paradraya⁠/, β€œacross the sea”),[2] in reference to them living beyond the Black Sea with respect to the Achaemenid Empire.

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Proper noun[edit]

𐎿𐎣𐎠 𐏐 𐎫𐎹𐎑𐎹 𐏐 𐎱𐎼𐎭𐎼𐎹 (Sakā tayaiy paradraya)

  1. The Scythians inhabiting the Pontic Steppe
    • DNa 24-29
      𐏐 π€πŽΌπŽ£ 𐏐 πƒπŽΌπŽ’πŽΊπŽ«πŽ‘π 𐏐 𐎰𐎫𐎦𐎒𐏁 𐏐 πŽ₯𐎭𐎠𐎼𐏐
      𐏐 πƒπŽ‘πŽ―πŽ’π 𐏐 𐎿𐎣𐎠 𐏐 πƒπŽ’πŽΆπŽΊπŽΌπŽ₯𐎠 𐏐 𐎿𐎣𐎠
      𐏐 𐎫𐎑πŽ₯𐎼𐎧𐎒𐎭𐎠 𐏐 𐎲𐎠𐎲𐎑𐎽𐎒𐏁 𐏐 𐎠𐎰𐎒𐎼𐎠
      𐏐 𐎠𐎼𐎲𐎠𐎹 𐏐 𐎸𐎒𐎭𐎼𐎠𐎹 𐏐 𐎠𐎼𐎷𐎑𐎴
      𐏐 𐎣𐎫𐎱𐎬𐎒𐎣 𐏐 𐎿𐎱𐎼𐎭 𐏐 𐎹𐎒𐎴 𐏐 𐎿𐎣𐎠 𐏐 𐎫𐎹𐎑𐎹 𐏐 𐎱𐎼𐎭𐎼𐎹
      𐏐 𐎿𐎀𐎒𐎭𐎼 𐏐 𐎹𐎒𐎴𐎠 𐏐 𐎫𐎣𐎲𐎼𐎠 𐏐 𐎱𐎒𐎫𐎠𐎹𐎠
      : z-r-k : h-r-u-v-t-i-Ε‘ : ΞΈ-t-gu-u-Ε‘ : g-d-a-r :
      : h-i-du-u-Ε‘ : s-k-a : h-u-m-v-r-g-a : s-k-a
      : t-i-g-r-x-u-d-a : b-a-b-i-ru-u-Ε‘ : a-ΞΈ-u-r-a
      : a-r-b-a-y : mu-u-d-r-a-y : a-r-mi-i-n
      : k-t-p-tu-u-k : s-p-r-d : y-u-n : s-k-a : t-y-i-y : p-r-d-r-y
      : s-ku-u-d-r : y-u-n-a : t-k-b-r-a : p-u-t-a-y-a
      /: Zraⁿka : HarauvatiΕ‘ : ΘataguΕ‘ : Gaⁿdāra
       : HiⁿduΕ‘ : Sakā : haumavargā : Sakā
      : tigraxaudā : BābirauΕ‘ : AΞΈurā
      : Arabāya : Mudrāya : Armina
      : Katpatuka : Sparda : Yauna : Sakā : tayaiy : paradraya
       : Skudra : Yaunā : takabarā : Putāyā
      /

      [...] Drangiana, Arachosia, Sattagydia, Gandhara,
      India, the Scythians who lay around hauma-plants, the Scythians
      with pointed caps, Babylon, Assyria,
      Arabia, Egypt, Armenia,
      Cappadocia, Lydia, Greece, the Scythians who are across the Sea,
      Thrace, the Greeks who wear shield-like hats, Libya [...]

References[edit]

  • Text: DNa, Part No. 32, Old Persian Corpus, TITUS: Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien