نشخوار
Persian
Alternative forms
- نشخور (nešxūr), نشخار (nešxār)
Etymology
A native formation, whose constituents ultimately go back to Proto-Iranian *niš- (“down, away”) and *hwar- (“to eat, consume”). Cognate with Pashto شخوند (šxwand, “chewing, rumination; cud”), Waziri [script needed] (xšan, “piece of bread”), [script needed] (xšān, “chewing the cud”). Akin to Old Armenian նշխար (nšxar, “remnants of food”), Aghwan 𐕎𐔼𐕐𐔴𐕍𐔰𐕜 (nišeq̇aṭ, “dinner”), Iranian borrowings.
Noun
نشخوار • (nešxâr, nešxvār, nošxâr)
- chewing the cud, rumination
- cud
- remnants of animal fodder
Related terms
- خوردن (xordan)
References
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- Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), “նշխար”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 461–462
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- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “نشخوار”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
- Steblin-Kamenskij, I.M. (1999) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ vaxanskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Wakhi Language] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Peterburgskoje Vostokovedenije, →ISBN, page 342