𐰉𐰺𐰽

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Common Turkic *bars (“a large feline”) itself of unknown origins.

  1. The general consensus considers it a borrowing from an Iranian language,[1] compare Sogdian 𐼾𐼴𐽀𐼹𐼰𐼻𐼸 (pwrδʾnk),[2] Persian پلنگ (palang) and Sanskrit पृदाकु (pṛdāku, “viper; tiger, panther”).[3]
  2. Nishanyan instead suggests a borrowing from a Tocharian language,[4] compare Tocharian A and B pärs- (“to sprinkle, splash”).[5]

Cognate with Turkish pars (“leopard, panther”). Compare also Middle Mongol ᠪᠠᠷᠰ (bars), a Turkic borrowing.[6]

Noun

𐰉𐰺𐰽 (bars)

  1. a type of large feline; panther, leopard, tiger
  2. a male given name
    • 8th century CE, Kültegin Inscription, E20
      𐰉𐰺𐰽:𐰋𐰏:𐰼𐱅𐰃
      bars:beg:erti
      ...it was Bars Bek.

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bars”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 368
  2. ^ Gharib, B. (1995) “pwrδʾnk”, in Sogdian dictionary: Sogdian–Persian–English, Tehran: Farhangan Publications, page 330
  3. ^ Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “pṛdāku”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, page 169
  4. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pars”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  5. ^ Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 401
  6. ^ Sanžejev, G. D., Orlovskaja, M. N., Ševernina, Z. V. (2015) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ mongolʹskix jazykov: v 3 t. [Etymological dictionary of Mongolic languages: in 3 vols.] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 79

Further reading

  • Tekin, Talât (1968) “bars”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 309
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