Reconstruction:Old Persian/Varufarnāh

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Old Persian

Etymology

From *varuš (“wide”) +‎ *farnāh (“glory”).^[1]^[2]

Proper noun

*Varufarnāh (/Varufarnāh/)

a male given name

Descendants

→ Ancient Greek: Ὀλοφέρνης (Olophérnēs), Ὀροφέρνης (Orophérnēs)
- → Hebrew: הולופרנס
- → Latin: Holofernes

References

^ Hinz, Walther (1975) “*varufarnah-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎^[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 257
^ Manfred Hutter (2015) Iranische Personennamen in der Hebräischen Bibel [Iranian Personal Names in the Hebrew Bible] (Iranisches Personennamenbuch) (in German), volume 7B, page 38

[1] Hinz, Walther (1975) “*varufarnah-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎^[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 257

[2] Manfred Hutter (2015) Iranische Personennamen in der Hebräischen Bibel [Iranian Personal Names in the Hebrew Bible] (Iranisches Personennamenbuch) (in German), volume 7B, page 38

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