رخش
See also: رجس
Persian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Ultimately from Proto-Iranian *ra(n)ǰ- (“to colour, dye”) (compare Sogdian [script needed] (rɣš- /raxš/, “Rakhsh”), Khwarezmian رختک (rxtk /raxtak/, “red”), Mazanderani رش (raš, “red (of cattle)”), Northern Kurdish reş (“black”), Talysh رش (rəş, “light brown”)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian (compare Sanskrit रञ्ज् (rañj, “to be dyed or coloured, to redden, grow red, glow”)), from Proto-Indo-European *reg- (“to dye”).
The Persian word is not inherited but is borrowed probably from the Sogdian cognate.
Akin to Old Armenian երաշխ (erašx), an Iranian borrowing.
Adjective edit
رخش • (raxš)
Proper noun edit
رخش • (raxš)
- Rakhsh, the horse of Rustam
Etymology 2 edit
From Proto-Iranian *rúxš (“to shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-. Cognate with Ossetian рухс (ruxs, “light”).
Noun edit
رخش • (roxš)
References edit
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “رخش”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
- Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 313, 321