blnc

Middle Persian

Etymology

From Old Persian *vrinǰi-, which is related to synonymous Sogdian [script needed] (βrync /⁠βrinč⁠/) and, without the nasal infix, Sogdian [script needed] (rysk /⁠rise, rē̆se⁠/), [script needed] (ryzʾkh /⁠rezak, reze?⁠/), Pashto وريژې pl (wriže), Khotanese [script needed] (rrīysu), Yagnobi rĭžóna, rĕžóna, Zazaki riz, Ormuri [script needed] (rīdzan), [script needed] (rēzan). Compare also Elamite 𒈪𒊑𒍢𒆜 (mi-ri-zi-iš), an Iranian borrowing.

According to Mayrhofer, these Iranian words are borrowed from an Eastern cultural Wanderwort reflected also in Sanskrit व्रीहि (vrīhi); see there for more.

Ancient Greek ὄρυζα (óruza), ὄρυζον (óruzon, “rice”), ὀρίνδης (oríndēs, “bread made of rice flour”) are borrowed from an Iranian dialect.

Classical Syriac ܪܘܙܐ (rūzā), Arabic رُزّ (ruzz) are from the same Wanderwort, perhaps borrowed via Iranian.

Noun

blnc • (/*brinǰ/)

1. rice

Descendants

• Manichaean Middle Persian: 𐫁𐫡𐫏𐫗𐫉 (brynz /⁠*brinz⁠/)
• Persian: برنج (berenj), (rare, archaic) گرنج (gorenj, goranj)
  • → Baluchi: [script needed] (byrynj)
  • → Kurdish:

    Central Kurdish: برنج (birinc)

    Northern Kurdish: birinc

  • → Ottoman Turkish: پرنج (pirinǰ), برنج (birinǰ)
    • Turkish: pirinç
    • → Adyghe: пындж (pəndž), (Shapsug) пыдж (pədž)
    • → Avar: пиринчӏ (pirinčʼ)
    • → Kabardian: прунж (prunž), прундж (prundž)
      • → Abaza: прунджь (prundź)
    • → Ossetian:

      Iron: пыры́ндз (pyrýnʒ)

      Digor: пириндз (pirinʒ)

    • → Ubykh: p̒irinǰ
  • → Uyghur: گۈرۈچ (gürüch)
  • → Kazakh: күріш (kürış)
• → Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܒܪܢܓ (brng)

• → Georgian: ბრინჯი (brinǯi)
  • → Abkhaz: абрынџь (abrəndž), а-бры́нџь (a-brə́ndž), а-пры́нџь (a-pʼrə́ndž) (or from Mingrelian)
  • → Bezhta: биринжи (birinži)
  • → Mingrelian: ბრინჯი (brinǯi)
  • → Svan: [script needed] (brinǰ)
• → Old Armenian: բրինձ (brinj)
  • Middle Armenian: բրինձ (brinj)
    • Armenian: բրինձ (brinj)
      • → Khinalug: ппарынцӏ (pːarɨnc̣)
      • → Udi: бириндз (birinʒ)
• → Zazaki: birinc

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 19
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բրինձ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 493a
• Cabolov, R. L. (2001) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 184–185
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 282
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[2] (in German), volume III, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 597f
• Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 364
• Шагиров, А. К. (1977) К. В. Ломтатидзе, editor, Этимологический словарь адыгских (черкесских) языков [Etymological Dictionary of Adyghean (Circassian) Languages]‎^[3] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Nauka, page 13
• Abajev, V. I. (1973) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 246