blnj

Middle Persian

Etymology

From Old Persian *vrinǰi- (), which is related to synonymous Sogdian [script needed] (βrync /βrinč/) and, without the nasal infix, Sogdian [script needed] (rysk /rise, rē̆se/), [script needed] (ryzʾkh /rezak, reze?/), Pashto وريژې‎ pl (wriže), Khotanese [script needed] (rrīysu), Yagnobi rĭžóna, rĕžóna, Zazaki riz, Ormuri [script needed] (rīdzan), [script needed] (rēzan). Compare also Elamite 𒈪𒊑𒍢𒆜 (mi-ri-zi-iš),[1] an Iranian borrowing.

According to Mayrhofer, these Iranian words are borrowed from an Eastern cultural Wanderwort reflected also in Sanskrit व्रीहि (vrīhi); see there for more.

Ancient Greek ὄρυζα (óruza), ὄρυζον (óruzon, “rice”), ὀρίνδης (oríndēs, “bread made of rice flour”) are borrowed from an Iranian dialect.

Classical Syriac ܪܘܙܐ‎ (rūzā), Arabic رُزّ‎ (ruzz) are from the same Wanderwort, perhaps borrowed via Iranian.

Noun

blnj • (/*brinǰ/)

  1. rice

Descendants
  • Manichaean Middle Persian: 𐫁𐫡𐫏𐫗𐫉‎ (brynz /*brinz/)
  • Persian: برنج‎ (berenj), (rare, archaic) گرنج‎ (gorenj, goranj)
    • → Baluchi: [script needed] (byrynj)
    • → Kurdish:
      Central Kurdish: برنج‎ (birinc)
      Northern Kurdish: birinc
    • → Ottoman Turkish: پرنج‎ (pirinǰ), برنج‎ (birinǰ)
      • Turkish: pirinç
      • → Adyghe: пындж (pənǯ̍), (Shapsug) пыдж (pəǯ̍)
      • → Avar: пиринчӏ (pirinč̣)
      • → Kabardian: прунж (prwnž), прундж (prwnǯ̍)
        • → Abaza: прунджь (prwnǯ’)
      • → Ossetian:
        Iron: пыры́ндз (pyrýnʒ)
        Digor: пириндз (pirinʒ)
      • → Ubykh: p̒irinǰ
    • → Uyghur: گۈرۈچ‎ (gürüch)
    • → Kazakh: күріш (küriş)
  • → Aramaic:
    Classical Syriac: ܒܪܢܓ‎ (brng)
  • → Georgian: ბრინჯი (brinǯi)
    • → Abkhaz: а-бры́нџь (ā-brə́nǯ̍), а-пры́нџь (ā-ṗrə́nǯ̍) (or from Mingrelian)
    • → Bezhta: биринжи
    • → Mingrelian: ბრინჯი (brinǯi)
    • → Svan: [script needed] (brinǰ)
  • → Old Armenian: բրինձ (brinj)
  • → Zazaki: birinc

References
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 19
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “բրինձ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 493a
  • Cabolov, R. L. (2001) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 184–185
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 282
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume III, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 597f
  • Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 364
  • Šagirov, A. K. (1977), Lomtatidze K. V., editor, Etimologičeskij slovarʹ adygskix (čerkesskix) jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Adyghean (Circassian) Languages] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Nauka, page 13
  • Abajev, V. I. (1973) Istoriko-etimologičeskij slovarʹ osetinskovo jazyka [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow, Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, page 246
  1. “Archived copy”, in (Please provide the title of the work)‎, accessed 7 May 2017, archived from the original on 17 May 2017
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