gwhl

Middle Persian

Etymology

From Old Persian *gauθrā, borrowed from Old Median *gauθrā. from Proto-Iranian *gawθraH (“jewel”). Cognate with Northern Kurdish gewher, Bactrian γωνριγο (gōnrigo), Pashto غوره (ǧwëra).

Noun

gwhl • (gōhr, gōhar)

1. substance, essence, nature
   • Wizīdagīhā ī Zādspram, chapter 3, line 28

     PWN 1000 ŠNT gwhl Y kwp BYN zmyk' YHBWNt YKOYMWNʾt

     pad hazār sāl gōhr ī kōf andar zamīg dād ēstād

     for a thousand years the substance of the mountains had been created in the earth.

2. jewel
3. stock, lineage

Derived terms

• gwhlk' (gōhrag)
• gwhlkdʾnʾk' (gōhragdānāg)
• gwhlyk' (gōhrīg)

Descendants

• Persian: گوهر (gawhar) (see there for further descendants)
• → Aramaic:

  Classical Mandaic: ࡂࡅࡄࡀࡓ (guhar)

  Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: גוהר (guhar)

• → Old Georgian: გოვარი (govari), გუარი (guari)
  • Georgian: გვარი (gvari)
• → Old Armenian: գոհար (gohar) (see there for further descendants)