wʾčʾlkʾn'
Middle Persian
Etymology
From wʾčʾl (/wāzār/) + -kʾn' (/(a)gān/). Compare Manichaean Middle Persian wʾčʾrgʾn (wāzār(a)gān) and Old Armenian վաճառական (vačaṙakan), Iranian borrowing.
Noun
wʾčʾlkʾn' • (/wāzār(a)gān/)
- merchant
Derived terms
- wʾčʾlkʾnyh (/wāzār(a)gānīh/, “trade”)
Descendants
- Persian: بازارگان (bâzârgân), بازرگان (bâzargân)
- Tajik: бозаргон (bozargon)
- → Hindustani:
- Urdu: بازرگان (bāzargān)
- → Ottoman Turkish: بازرگان (bâzergân)
- Turkish: bezirgân
- → Armenian: Բեզիրգանյան (Bezirganyan)
- → Serbo-Croatian: bazèrdžān, базѐрџа̄н
- Turkish: bezirgân
References
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “wāzāragān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press