clp

Of native Iranian origin, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *selp-. Cognate with Parthian 𐫝𐫡𐫁‎ (crb /čarb/, “smooth, mild”), Pashto څورب‎ (śorb), Baluchi [script needed] (čarp, “fat”), Central Kurdish چەور‎ (çewr, “fat”), Ossetian царв (carv, “clarified butter”) and Old Armenian ճարպ (čarp, “fat”), an Iranian borrowing.

clp • (čarb)

1. mild, gentle
2. fatty, oily

• clpyh (čarbīh)
• clpšn' (čarbišn)
• clpšnʾwmnd (čarbišnōmand)

• Persian: چرب‎ (čarb)
  • → Pashto: چرب‎ (čarb)

• Abajev, V. I. (1958) Istoriko-etimologičeskij slovarʹ osetinskovo jazyka [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow, Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, page 290
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), “ճարպ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 192b
• Boyce, Mary (1977) A word-list of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Acta Iranica 9a, Série 3 – “Textes et mémoires”, vol. 2-supplément)‎, with a reverse index by Ronald Zwanziger, Leiden, Tehran-Liège: E.J. Brill, Bibliothèque Pahlavi, page 31
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• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 21
• Nyberg, H. S. (1974) A Manual of Pahlavi, Part II: Glossary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 53b