gwhl

From Old Persian *gauθra- or *gavaθra-. Akin to Kurdish gewher, Sanskrit गोत्र (gotra, “species, lineage”).

gwhl • (gōhr, gōhar)

1. substance, essence, nature
   • Wizīdagīhā ī Zādspram, chapter 3, line 28

     PWN 1000 ŠNT gwhl Y kwp BYN zmyk' YHBWNt YKOYMWNʾt

     pad hazār sāl gōhr ī kōf andar zamīg dād ēstād

     for a thousand years the substance of the mountains had been created in the earth.

2. jewel
3. stock, lineage

• gwhlk' (gōhrag)
• gwhlkdʾnʾk' (gōhragdānāg)
• gwhlyk' (gōhrīg)

• Persian: گوهر‎ (gauhar)
  • → Arabic: جوهر‎ (jawhar)
    • Maltese: ġawhra
    • → Chechen: жовхӏар (žowhar)
    • → Hindustani:

      Hindi: जौहर (jauhar)

      Urdu: جوہر‎ (jauhar)

    • → Indonesian: jauhar
    • → Malay: Johor
      • → English: Johor, Johore
    • → Middle Armenian: ջոհար (ǰohar), ջուար (ǰuar), ջօհար (ǰōhar), ջուհար (ǰuhar), ջաւհար (ǰawhar), ճոհար (čohar), ճուհար (čuhar), ճօհար (čōhar)
    • → Persian: جوهر‎ (jowhar)
      • → Ottoman Turkish: جوهر‎ (cevher)
        • Turkish: cevher
        • → Albanian: xeheror (dubious)
        • → Greek: τζοβαΐρι (tzovaḯri)
        • → Serbo-Croatian:

          Cyrillic: џевер

          Latin: džever

    • → Swahili: johari
    • ⇒ Arabic: جواهر‎ pl (jawāhir)
      • → Ottoman Turkish: جوهر‎‎ pl (cevahir)
        • Turkish: cevahir
          • → Romanian: giuvaier, juvaer, giuvaer
        • → Albanian: Xhevahir (given name)
        • → Serbo-Croatian:

          Cyrillic: џева́хир, џева́јир

          Latin: dževáhir, dževájir

      • → Persian: جواهر‎ (javâher)
  • → Bashkir: гәүһәр (gäwhär), Гәүһәр (Gäwhär)
  • → Turkmen: göwher
• → Aramaic:

  Classical Mandaic: ࡂࡅࡄࡀࡓ‎ (guhar)

  Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: גוהר‎ (guhar)

• → Georgian: გოარი (goari)
• → Old Armenian: գոհար (gohar), գօհար (gōhar), գաւհար (gawhar), գուհար (guhar)
  • Middle Armenian: գուհար (guhar)
  • → Armenian: գոհար (gohar)