نارون
Persian
Alternative forms
- ناروان (nârvân)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian): IPA(key): /nɑːɾwan/
- (Dari): IPA(key): /nɒːɾwan/
- (Iranian Persian): IPA(key): /nɒːɾvæn/
- (Tajik): IPA(key): /nɔːɾvan/
Etymology 1
Akin to Manichaean Parthian [script needed] (nʾrwʾn /nārwān/, “elm”) and Old Uyghur [Manichaean needed] (narwan, “elm”).
Noun
نارون • (nârvan)
- (Transoxianan, obsolete) a large tree with many branches
- elm
Etymology 2
From Middle Persian equivalent to نار (nâr) + ون (van, “(ash) tree”) or بن (bon, “tree, bush”) (the same word with regular sound change from Middle to New Persian).
Noun
نارون • (nârvan)
- (obsolete) pomegranate tree
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ferdowsi to this entry?)
References
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “نارون”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
- Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864), “نارون”, 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 2, Bonn: Adolf Marcus, page 1275a
- Wolff, Fritz (1935) Glossar zu Firdosis Schahname (in German), Berlin: Reichsdruckerei, page 794a; addition Wolff, Fritz (1991), “Verbesserungen und Zusätze zum Schahname-Glossar”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 141, page 110