hlbwc

Middle Persian

Etymology

From hl (xar, “donkey, ass”) +‎ bwc (buz, “goat”). Akin to Manichaean Middle Persian xrbwz (xarbuz). Compare Iranian borrowings Old Armenian խարբուզ (xarbuz) and Old Georgian ხარაბუზი (xarabuzi), and also Classical Syriac ܥܙܝ ܚܡܪ (ʿezzay ḥemār), which is a calque of the Middle Persian word.

For the formation compare Old Armenian էշայծեամն (ēšayceamn, literally “donkey-gazelle”).

Noun

hlbwc • (xar-buz)

xar-buz

1. oryx

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “xar-buz”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 94
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 159
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “խարբուզ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, pages 343–344
• Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 884