ʾznʾwl

Middle Persian

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *āznābara (“bearer of nobility”). For the first component compare Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫀𐫉𐫗‎ (ʾzn /āzn/, “noble”). The second goes back to Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-.

Adjective

ʾznʾwl • (āznāwar)

  1. noble

Descendants

References
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 12
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “āznāwar”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 16
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