Reconstruction:Old Median/ganǰabarah

This Old Median entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Old Median

Etymology

From *ganǰam (“treasure”) +‎ *barah (“bearer”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear”). Cognate with Parthian 𐭂𐭍𐭆𐭁𐭓 (gnzbr /⁠ganzbar⁠/), 𐫃𐫉𐫗𐫁𐫡 (gznbr /⁠gaznβar⁠/), Sogdian 𐼲𐼵𐼻𐼱𐽀 (ɣznβr /⁠γaznβar⁠/), Old Armenian գանձաւոր (ganjawor).

Noun

*ganǰabarah

1. treasurer

Descendants

• → Old Persian: *ganzabarah
  • Middle Persian:

    Book Pahlavi script: 𐯋𐮲𐮵𐮿𐮵𐮱𐮹 (gncwbl /⁠ganjwar⁠/)

    Inscriptional Pahlavi script: 𐭢𐭭𐭦𐭥𐭡𐭥 (gnzwbr /⁠ganjwar⁠/)

    Manichaean script: 𐫃𐫗𐫉𐫇𐫡 (gnzwr /⁠ganzwar⁠/)

    • Classical Persian: گنجور (ganjwar, ganjūr)
      • Persian: گنجور (ganjur)
      • Tajik: ганҷур (ganjur)
      • → Ottoman Turkish: گنجور (gencûr)
      • → Sanskrit: गञ्जवर (gañjavara)
      • → Urdu: گنجور (ganjūr)
    • → Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: גַנְזְוָרָא (ganzvārā)
  • → Akkadian:

    Late Babylonian: 𒃶𒍝𒁀𒊒 (gan-za-ba-ru /⁠ganzabaru⁠/), 𒃶𒍝𒁇𒊑 (gan-za-bar-ri /⁠ganzabari⁠/), 𒂵𒀭𒍝𒁀𒊏 (ga-an-za-ba-ra /⁠ganzabara⁠/), 𒃶𒍪𒁇𒊏 (gan-zu-bar-ra /⁠ganzubara⁠/)

  • → Aramaic:

    Biblical Aramaic: גזבר (gizbar)

    Imperial Aramaic: 𐡂𐡍𐡆𐡁𐡓 (gnzbr)

    • Hatran Aramaic: 𐣢𐣦𐣡𐣣𐣩 (gzbry /⁠Gazzabray⁠/, “a given name”)
    • Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: גִּזִבְּרָא (gizbrā)
    • Classical Mandaic: ࡂࡀࡍࡆࡉࡁࡓࡉࡀ (ganzibria)
      • Mandaic: [script needed] (ganzeḇrānā)
    • Classical Syriac: ܓܙܒܪܐ (gēzaḇrā) (< *ܓܢܙܒܪܐ (genzaḇrā))
      • → Hebrew: גִּזְבָּר (gizbar)
      • → English: Caspar, Jasper
  • → Elamite:

    Achaemenid Elamite: 𒋡𒀭𒍝𒁀𒊏 (ka₄-an-za-ba-ra /⁠kanzabara⁠/), 𒋡𒅔𒍝𒁀𒊏 (ka₄-in-za-ba-ra /⁠kainzabara⁠/), 𒃶𒍝𒁇𒊏 (kán-za-bar-ra /⁠kanzabara⁠/), 𒋡𒍝𒁀𒊏 (ka₄-za-ba-ra /⁠kazabara⁠/)

References

• Gharib, B. (1995) “γznβr”, in Sogdian dictionary: Sogdian–Persian–English, Tehran: Farhangan Publications, page 182a
• Tavernier, Jan (2007) Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550–330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts, Peeters Publishers, →ISBN, page 422
• Matthew W. Stolper, "Ganzabara", Encyclopædia Iranica, December 15, 2000, retrieved July 23, 2013.
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “ganǰ”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 35
• Texts from Ḥaṭrā, 116