Middle Persian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Iranian *namadka-,[1] compare Bactrian ναμιλγο (namilgo).

Noun

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nmk' (namak)

  1. (Book Pahlavi) salt

Descendants

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  • Classical Persian:

References

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  1. ^ Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 464
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “namak”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press