wʾčʾl
Middle Persian
Etymology
Probably from Old Iranian *wahā-čā̆rana- (“market”, literally “trade-walkabout”) — the first and latter elements whereof ultimately deriving from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to buy, sell”) (compare Persian بها (bahâ)) and *kʷel- (“to turn, revolve”) respectively.
Cognate with Gilaki واجار (vājār, “open market, bazaar”), Mazanderani واجار (vājār, “known, famous”) (in the sense of revealing something in front of everyone in a bazaar), Sogdian 𐫇𐫀𐫝𐫡𐫗 (wʾcrn, “market, bazaar”), Bactrian οασαρο (oasaro, “market”). Akin to the Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian վաճառ (vačaṙ, “market; trade”), Old Georgian ვაჭარი (vač̣ari, “merchant”), Aghwan 𐕛𐔰𐕖𐔰𐕙 (vačar, “Jew”).
Derived terms
Descendants
- Persian: بازار (bâzâr) (see there for further descendants)
References
- Benveniste, Émile (1969) Le vocabulaire des institutions indo-européennes (in French), volume I, Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, page 126
- Gharib, B. (1995), “wʾčʾl”, in Sogdian dictionary: Sogdian–Persian–English, Tehran: Farhangan Publications, page 396b
- Henning, W. (1977) Selected Papers (Acta Iranica; 14), volume I, Tehran and Liège: Bibliothèque Pahlavi, page 530a
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “wāzār”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 89
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 535
- “BĀZĀR”, in Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, New York, 1989
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