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),[1] 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/)
Descendants
- Manichaean Middle Persian: 𐫁𐫡𐫏𐫗𐫉 (brynz /*brinz/)
- Persian: برنج (berenj), (rare, archaic) گرنج (gorenj, goranj)
- → Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܒܪܢܓ (brng)
- → Georgian: ბრინჯი (brinǯi)
- → Old Armenian: բրինձ (brinj)
- → 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
- ^ “Archived copy”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], 2017 May 7 (last accessed), archived from the original on 17 May 2017