Talk:تار

Tenuous Indo-European connection

Currently the etymology section of Persian تار (târ, “cord, string”) just refers, even added by @Vahagn Petrosyan, to Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch”), there reconstructing a “Proto-Iranian” “tánθram” “tā́nθram” with this as a single descendant, though with sources (one of which Abajev). I point out that the strain would be less tenuous if we compare with Aramaic תּוֹרָא (tōrā, “cord, string; line”), Hebrew תּוֹר (tōr, “line”), from Akkadian 𒄙 (/⁠turru, ṭurru⁠/, “twist, string”). Don’t know anything more about it. Fay Freak (talk) 03:08, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

The sources also list Yidgha tūr ‘trap’ and Pashto tōr ‘net’. I can't judge on these comparisons. --Vahag (talk) 15:06, 13 April 2019 (UTC)