ژدوار

See also: زدوار

Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Northwestern Iranian, whence borrowing Sanskrit जडुवार (jaḍuvāra), जडुपार (jaḍupāra), जदुवार (jaduvāra),[1] possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet- (“resin, gum”), also found as ژد (žad, “resin, gum”), as well as ـوار (-vâr, suffix denoting something having a characteristic).[2][3]

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? žadwār
Dari reading? žadwār
Iranian reading? žadvâr
Tajik reading? žadvor

Noun

ژدوار • (žadvâr)

  1. zedoary (Curcuma zedoaria)

Descendants

  • → Arabic: جَدْوَار (jadwār), زَدْوَار (zadwār)
    • → Byzantine Greek: τζεστουάρια (tzestouária), τζηντουάρ (tzēntouár), ζουδάρα (zoudára), ζαδόαρ (zadóar)
    • → Medieval Latin: zedoārium (see there for further descendants)
    • → Middle Armenian: ճատվար (čatvar)
    • → Persian: جدوار (jadvâr)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: جدوار (cedvar), زدوار (zidvar)
      • Turkish: cedvar

References

  1. ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) “jaduvāra-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume III, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 206
  2. ^ Edelʹman, D. I. (2011) “*ǰatu-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 4, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 144-145
  3. ^ Monchi-Zadeh, Davoud (1990) Wörter aus Xurāsān und ihre Herkunft (Acta Iranica; 29)‎[2] (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 87–88 Nr. 260
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