𐏃𐎥𐎶𐎫𐎠𐎴
Old Persian
editEtymology
editFrom *Hagmatāna- from *Ham-gmata-ana- (literally “city of the gathered”), itself derived from *ham-gmata-, participle of *ha(m)-gam- (“coming together”),[1] from *ham- (literally “together”) + *gam- (“to come”) (cf. *gmata- (“past participle of *gam-”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- and *gʷem-.
Proper noun
edit𐏃𐎥𐎶𐎫𐎠𐎴 (Hangmatāna-)
Descendants
edit(Taking Old Persian as representative for all Old Iranian)
- Middle Persian: 𐭠𐭧𐭬𐭲𐭠𐭭 (ʾhmtʾn /Ahmadān/)
- Persian: همدان (hamadân, hamedân)
- Persian: هگمتانه (hegmatâne)
- → Akkadian:
- → Ancient Greek: Ἀγβάτανα (Agbátana), Ἐκβάτανα (Ekbátana)
- Latin: Ecbatana, Ecbatanas, Ecbatanis Partiorum
- Old Armenian: Եկբատան (Ekbatan)
- → Aramaic:
- Aramaic: אַחְמְתָא (Aḥmeta)
- → Elamite:
- Parthian: 𐭀𐭇𐭌𐭕𐭍 (ʾḥmtn /Ahmadān/)
References
edit- Stuart C. Brown (15 December 1997), "Ecbatana", Encyclopaedia Iranica
- Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 17