مروارید

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian مروارید (marvârid).

Noun

مروارید • (mervarid)

1. pearl

   Synonym: اینجو (inci)

Descendants

• Turkish: mervarid

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مروارید”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1152
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مروارید”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, columns 4583–4584
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مروارید”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1819

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (mwlwʾlyt' /⁠morwārīd⁠/), [script needed] (mlwʾlyt /⁠marwārīd⁠/) (Book Pahlavi), [Manichaean needed] (mwrwʾryd /⁠morwārīd⁠/) (Manichaean), 𐬨𐬏𐬭𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬁𐬭𐬍𐬝 (mūrauuārīt̰ /⁠mūravārīt̰⁠/) (Pazend), from Old Persian *margārīta-, according to Beekes, possibly from Proto-Iranian *mŕ̥ga-ahri-ita- (“oyster”, literally “born from the shell of a bird”).

Akin to Manichaean Parthian [Manichaean needed] (mwrgʾryd /⁠morγārīd⁠/), Sogdian [script needed] (mrγʾrt(h) /⁠marγārt, marγārit⁠/), Pashto مرغلره (murğalara), Khotanese [script needed] pl (mrāhe, “pearl”), Central Kurdish مرواری (mirwarî). Possibly related to Sanskrit मञ्जरी (mañjarī). Also compare Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs), Old Armenian մարգարիտ (margarit), Old Georgian მარგარიტი (margariṭi), მარგალიტი (margaliṭi), Iranian borrowings.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [maɾ.wɑː.ɾiːð], [muɾ.wɑː.ɾiːð]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mʊɾ.wɑː.ɾiːd̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mʊɾ.wɑː.ɾiːd̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mʊɾ.wɑː.ɾiːd̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [muɾ.wɔː.ɾid̪̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [moɹ.vɒː.ɹiːd̪̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mäɾ.vɔ.ɾid̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	marwārīḏ, murwārīḏ
Dari reading?	murwārīd
Iranian reading?	morvârid
Tajik reading?	marvorid

Noun

Dari	مروارید
Iranian Persian
Tajik	марворид

مروارید • (morvârid or marvârid) (plural مرواریدها (morvârid-hâ, marvârid-hâ))

1. pearl, margarite

   Synonym: گسپرج (gasparaj)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: mirvari
• → Bashkir: мәрүәр (mərwər)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: मरवारीद (marvārīd)

  Urdu: مروارید (marvārīd)

• → Kazakh: меруерт (meruert)
• → Ottoman Turkish: مروارید (mervarid)
  • Turkish: mervarid
• → Uyghur: مەرۋايىت (merwayit)
• → Uzbek: marvarid

Proper noun

مروارید • (morvârid)

1. a female given name, Morvarid, Murwarid, or Murwareed, from Middle Persian

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: Mirvarid, Mirvari

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “morwārīd”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 56
• Gharib, B. (1995) “mrγʾrt(h)”, in Sogdian dictionary: Sogdian–Persian–English, Tehran: Farhangan Publications, page 217a
• Philip Huyse, "Greece xiii. Greek Loanwords in Middle Iranian Languages", Encyclopædia Iranica, December 15, 2002
• غلی اشرف صادقی، «‫فاوا، مُروارید ـ مَروارید‬، گان ـ گاد‬»، فرهنگ‌نویسی، شمارهٔ ۷، ۱۳۹۲، صص ۱۰۲–۱۱۰