LHMA
Middle Persian
Alternative forms
- [script needed] (nʾn' /nān/) (Book Pahlavi)
- 𐫗𐫀𐫗 (nʾn /nān/) (Manichaean)
Etymology
From Old Persian [Term?], from Proto-Iranian *nagna- (compare Sogdian [script needed] (nγn- /naγn-/, “bread”), Baluchi نگن (nagan), Pashto [script needed] (naγan), Manichaean Parthian 𐫗𐫃𐫗 (ngn /naγn/), Khotanese [script needed] (nāṃji), and possibly the Old Armenian loanword նկան (nkan)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian [Term?] (compare Sanskrit नग्नहु (nagnahu, “ferment, a drug used for fermenting spirituous liquor”)).
Logogram from Aramaic 𐡋𐡇𐡌𐡀 (laḥmā [lḥmʾ]).
Noun
LHMA • (LHMA /nān/)
- (Book Pahlavi) bread
- (Book Pahlavi) food
Descendants
- Classical Persian: [Term?]
- Persian: نان (nān)
- Tajik: нон (non)
- → Bengali: নান (nan)
- → Hindi: नान (nān)
- → Pashto: نان (nān)
- → Ottoman Turkish: نان (nān)
- → Urdu: نان (nān)
- → English: naan
- → Uyghur: نان (nan)
- → Mandarin: 饢, 馕 (náng)
References
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “nān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 58
- Bailey, H. W. (1979), “nāṃji”, in Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 179b
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 6