khlpʾd

Middle Persian

Etymology

From kh (kah, chaff, straw) + lpʾd- (rubāy-), present stem of lpwtn' (rubūdan, to snatch, to rob).

Noun

khlpʾd (kah-rubāy)

  1. amber

Descendants

  • Persian: کهربای (kahrobây), کهربا (kahrobâ)
    • Tajik: каҳрабо (kahrabo)
      • > Uzbek: qahrabo
    • > Adyghe: кӏэхьрэбэ (č̣̍ăḥrăbă)
    • > Arabic: كهرباء (kahrabāʾ), كهرمان (kahramān)
    • > Azeri: kəhrəba
    • > Bashkir: гәрәбә (gäräbä)
    • > Georgian: ქარვა (karva)
    • > Gujarati: કેરબો (kērabō)
    • > Hindustani:
      Hindi: कहरुवा (kahruvā)
      Urdu: کہربا (kahrubā)
    • > Ottoman Turkish: [script needed] (kehrübar), [script needed] (kehribar), كهربا (kehrübâ), [script needed] (keherbar)
    • > Swahili: kaharabu
    • > Tatar: гәрәбә (ğäräbä)
  • > Chinese: 琥珀 (OC *qʰˁraʔ pʰˁrak > MC huoX pʰɣæk > Mandarin hǔpò) (taking Middle Persian as representative for all Middle Iranian languages)
  • > Classical Syriac: ܩܗܪܒܝ (qahrḇāy), ܩܗܪܐܒܝ (qhrʾby)

References

  • qhrby”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “kah-rubāy”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 48
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