Reconstruction:Old Persian/ganzabarah

This Old Persian entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Old Persian

Alternative forms

• *gandabarah (genuine Old Persian development)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Median *ganǰabarah.

Noun

*ganzabarah

1. treasurer

Derived terms

• *upaganzabarah

Descendants

• Middle Persian:

  Manichaean script: 𐫃𐫗𐫉𐫇𐫡 (gnzwr /⁠ganzwar⁠/)

  Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (gncwbl /⁠ganjwar⁠/)

  Inscriptional Pahlavi script: 𐭢𐭭𐭦𐭥𐭡𐭥 (gnzwbr /⁠ganjwar⁠/)

  • Classical Persian: گنجور (ganjwar, ganjūr)
    • Persian: گنجور (ganjur)
    • Tajik: ганҷур (ganjur)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: گنجور (gencûr)
    • → Sanskrit: गञ्जवर (gañjavara)
    • → Urdu: گنجور (ganjūr)
  • → Old Armenian: գանձաւոր (ganjawor)
  • → Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: גַנְזְוָרָא (ganzvārā)
• → Late Babylonian: 𒃶𒍝𒁀𒊒 (gan-za-ba-ru /⁠ganzabaru⁠/), 𒃶𒍝𒁇𒊑 (gan-za-bar-ri /⁠ganzabari⁠/), 𒂵𒀭𒍝𒁀𒊏 (ga-an-za-ba-ra /⁠ganzabara⁠/), 𒃶𒍪𒁇𒊏 (gan-zu-bar-ra /⁠ganzubara⁠/)
• → Aramaic:

  Biblical Aramaic: גזבר (gizbar)

  Imperial Aramaic: 𐡂𐡍𐡆𐡁𐡓𐡀 (gnzbrʾ)

  Hatran Aramaic: 𐣢𐣦𐣡𐣣𐣩 (gzbry /⁠Gazzabray⁠/, “a given name”)

  Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: גִּזִבְּרָא (gizbrā)

  Classical Mandaic: ࡂࡀࡍࡆࡉࡁࡓࡉࡀ (ganzibria)

  • Mandaic: [script needed] (ganzeḇrānā)

  Classical Syriac: ܓܙܒܪܐ (gēzaḇrā) (< *ܓܢܙܒܪܐ (genzaḇrā))

• → Hebrew: גִּזְבָּר (gizbar)
  • → English: Caspar, Jasper
• → Achaemenid Elamite: 𒋡𒀭𒍝𒁀𒊏 (ka₄-an-za-ba-ra /⁠kanzabara⁠/), 𒋡𒅔𒍝𒁀𒊏 (ka₄-in-za-ba-ra /⁠kainzabara⁠/), 𒃷𒍝𒉺𒊏 (kán-za-ba-ra /⁠kanzabara⁠/), 𒃷𒍝𒁇𒊏 (kán-za-bar-ra /⁠kanzabara⁠/), 𒋡𒍝𒁀𒊏 (ka₄-za-ba-ra /⁠kazabara⁠/)