Reconstruction:Old Persian/Varufarnāh

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Old Persian

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Etymology

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From *varuš (wide) +‎ *farnāh (glory).[1][2]

Proper noun

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*Varufarnāh (/Varufarnāh/)

  1. a male given name

Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ Hinz, Walther (1975) “*varufarnah-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 257
  2. ^ Manfred Hutter (2015) Iranische Personennamen in der Hebräischen Bibel [Iranian Personal Names in the Hebrew Bible] (Iranisches Personennamenbuch) (in German), volume 7B, page 38