خیری

See also: خيري

Persian

Alternative forms

• خیرو, هیری (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (hylyk' /⁠hērīg⁠/, “wallflower”). Compare Old Armenian հիրիկ (hirik), հիր (hir), Classical Syriac ܟܝܪܝܓ (ḵīrīg), ܟܝܪܝ (ḵīrī), and ܟܝܪܘܓ (ḵīrūg) corresponding to the خیرو (xiru) variant, Arabic خَيْرِيّ (ḵayriyy), Iranian borrowings. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

خیری • (xeyri or xiri)

1. wallflower

Descendants

• → Middle Armenian: խիրի (xiri), խիր (xir)

Further reading

• Considine, Patrick (1979) “A semantic approach to the identification of Iranian loanwords in Armenian”, in Bela Brogyanyi, editor, Studies in Diachronic, Synchronic, and Typological Linguistics: Festschrift for Oswald Szemérenyi on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory; 11)‎^[1], volume I, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, page 223
• Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen‎^[2] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, pages 359–361
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 43