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๐Žฅ๐Žญ๐Ž ๐Žผ๐Žน

Old Persian edit

 
An early 5th century BC relief of a Gandharan tribute bearer. This relief is from the eastern stairs leading to the Apadana at Persepolis.

Etymology edit

Masculine gender adjective formed from ๐Žฅ๐Žญ๐Ž ๐Žผ (g-d-a-r /โ Gaโฟdฤraโ /, โ€œGandharaโ€) +โ€Ž -๐Žน (-y /โ -yaสฐโ /, adjectival suffix), used as a substantive.

Noun edit

๐Žฅ๐Žญ๐Ž ๐Žผ๐Žน (g-d-a-r-y /Gaโฟdฤraya/)

  1. a Gandharan
    ๐Žก๐Žน๐Žถ ๐ ๐Žฅ๐Žญ๐Ž ๐Žผ๐Žน โ€• iyam Gaโฟdฤraya โ€• this is a Gandharan[1]

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References edit

  1. ^ Text: A.2P, Part No. 130, Old Persian Corpus, TITUS: Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien
  2. โ†‘ 2.0 2.1 Tavernier, Jan (2007) Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550โ€“330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts, Peeters Publishers, โ†’ISBN
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