hʾn'
See also: ḥnꜥ
Middle Persian
Etymology
Clipping of 𐭡𐭩𐭲𐭠 (xānag, “lodgement”).
Noun
hʾn' • (xān)
- house, dwelling
Descendants
- Persian: خان (xân)
- → Arabic: خَان (ḵān)
- → Ottoman Turkish: خان (han)
- Turkish: han
- → Albanian: han
- → Aromanian: háne
- → Bulgarian: хан (han)
- → Greek: χάνι (cháni)
- → Hungarian: hán
- → Romanian: han
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ха̑н
- Latin: hȃn
References
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 93
- Vullers, Johann August (1855), “خان”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume I, Bonn: Adolf Marcus, page 648b