𐭱𐭲𐭥𐭩

Middle Persian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *tek-

Proto-Indo-European *tk-e-trómder.?

Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšatrám

Middle Persian 𐭱𐭲𐭥𐭩

From Old Persian *xšaθram. Compare Avestan 𐬑𐬱𐬀𐬚𐬭𐬀 (xšaθra), Sanskrit क्षत्र (kṣatrá)

Noun

𐭱𐭲𐭥𐭩 • (štry /šahr/)

1. land, country
2. city

Descendants

• Classical Persian: شَهْر (šahr), شار (šâr)
  • Dari: شَهْر (šahr)
  • Iranian Persian: شَهْر (šahr)
  • Tajik: шаҳр (šahr)
  • Judeo-Tat: şəhər
  • → Azerbaijani: şəhər
  • → Assamese: চহৰ (sohor)
  • → Bengali: শহর (śohor)
  • → Crimean Tatar: şeer
  • → Dhivehi: ޝަހަރު (šaharu), ސަހަރު (saharu)
  • → Gujarati: શહેર (śaher)
  • → Gurani: شار (şar)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: शहर (śahar)

    • → Nepali: शहर (śahar), सहर (sahar)
      • → Kusunda: səhər

    Urdu: شَہْر (śahr)

  • → Karachay-Balkar: шахар (şaxar)
  • → Kashmiri: شَہَر (śahar)
  • → Kazakh: шаһар (šahar)
  • → Khakas: шаар (şaar), шар (şar)
  • → Kumyk: шагьар (şahar)
  • → Kyrgyz: шаар (şaar)
  • → Marathi: शहर (śahar)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: شهر (şehir), շէհիր (şehir) — Armeno-Turkish
    • Turkish: şehir
    • → Albanian: sheher
    • → Serbo-Croatian:
      • Latin script: šȅher
      • Cyrillic script: ше̏хер
  • → Odia: ସହର (sahara)
  • → Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script: ਸ਼ਹਿਰ (śahir)

    Shahmukhi script: شہر (śahir)

  • → Sindhi: شَهَرُ (śaharu)
  • → Udi: шаьгьаьр (šähär)
  • → Uyghur: شەھەر (sheher)
  • → Uzbek: shahar

References

• Gignoux, Philippe (1972), Glossaire des Inscriptions Pehlevies et Parthes [Glossary of Pahlavi and Parthians Inscriptions] (Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum. Supplementary Series; 1) (in French), London: Lund Humphries, page 34b