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 ‎ (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

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