اسبه

See also: استھ‎, اسپه‎, and اشبھ‎

Persian

Etymology

From Parthian 𐫙𐫘𐫛𐫃‎ (ʿspg /ispag/) from West Iranian *spaka "dog-like, relating to dogs" (compare Old Median σπάκα, Kurdish se, seg, and Old Armenian ասպակ (aspak, “dog”), a borrowing from Median), from Proto-Iranian *ĉwā́ (compare Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬁‎ (spā)), Pashto سپی‎ (spëy)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ĉwā́ (compare Sanskrit श्वन् (śvā́)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ.

Noun

اسبه • (esbe) (plural اسبه‌ها‎ (esbe-hâ))

(archaic, dialectal) dog

References

Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “اسبه”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.