pmbk'

Middle Persian

Alternative forms

𐬞𐬀𐬥𐬠𐬀 (panba) (Pazend)

Etymology

Related to Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux, “silk-worm”) (which Beekes calls an Anatolian loan) and Khotanese [script needed] (mamṃa-, “cotton (?)”) (from *mamma- ← *bamba-). The ultimate origin is unknown.

Noun

pmbk' • (pambag)

(Book Pahlavi) cotton
- Greater Bundahišn

Derived terms

pmbkyn' (pambagēn, “(made of) cotton”)

Descendants

(taking Middle Persian as representative for all Middle Iranian)

Persian: پنبه (panbe)
- → Georgian: ბამბა (bamba)
- → Ottoman Turkish: پنبه (penbe)
  - → Turkish: pembe
  - → Armenian: փեմպե (pʻempe)
  - →⇒ Laz: ფემბელი (pembeli)
- → Arabic: بمبه (bamba)
→ Arabic: بمباج (bambaj)
→ Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܦܠܒܓ (palbaḡ)
→ Bashkir: мамыҡ (mamıq)
→ Byzantine Greek: βαμβάκιον (bambákion), βάμβαξ (bámbax), βαββάκιον (babbákion), βάμβυξ (bámbux), βαμπάκι (bampáki), βομπάκιον (bompákion), παμβακίς (pambakís), πάμβαξ (pámbax)
- Greek: βαμβάκι (vamváki), μπαμπάκι (bampáki)
  - → Bulgarian: бу́бак (búbak), бъ́бек (bǎ́bek)
- → Medieval Latin: bambax, bambagium
  - Italian: bambagia
    - →? Russian: бума́га (bumága)
- → Medieval Latin: bombacium, bombacinus (influenced by Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux))
  - French: bombasin
  - Venetan: bonbaxo
→ Chuvash: мамӑк (mamăk)
→ Georgian: ბამბაკი (bambaḳi)
Gilaki: پنبه (panba)
Gurani: [script needed] (pama)
→ Kazakh: мамық (mamyq)
Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: pembî, pembû
→ Kyrgyz: мамык (mamyk)
→ Old Armenian: բամբակ (bambak)
- Middle Armenian: բամբակ (bambak), բանբակ (banbak), բամպակ (bampak)
  - Armenian: բամբակ (bambak)
Larestani: [script needed] (pamba)
Southern Luri: پَمَّه (pamme)
Mazanderani: پمبه (pambe), پمه (pamme)
- Shahmirzadi: پمه (pamma)
→ Ossetian:
- Digor Ossetian: бӕмпӕг (bæmpæg)
- Iron Ossetian: бӕмбӕг (bæmbæg)
- → Ingush: боамби (boambi)
→ Old Anatolian Turkish: [script needed] (pambuk)
- → Azerbaijani: pambıq
- → Ottoman Turkish: پاموق (pamuk), پامبوق (pambuk)
  - Turkish: pamuk, pambuk, pamık
  - → Albanian: pambuk
  - → Armenian: փամպուխ (pʻampux)
  - → Bulgarian: паму́к (pamúk), памбук (pambuk)
  - → Hungarian: pamut
  - → Macedonian: памук (pamuk)
  - → Serbo-Croatian: pamuk, памук
→ Old Turkic: [script needed] (pamuq)
Talysh: памбә / pambə
→ Turkmen: памык
→ Udi: памбакӏ (pambaḳ)
→ Uzbek: momiq

References

MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “pambag”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 64
Hübschmann, Heinrich (1887) Etymologie und Lautlehre der ossetischen Sprache (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 121
Hübschmann, Heinrich (1895) Persische Studien [Persian Studies] (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 255
Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 116
Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բամբակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 401
Abajev, V. I. (1973) “bæmbæg, bæmpæg”, in Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, pages 249–250
Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, pages 323–324
Cabolov, R. L. (2010) “pambū, pambū | pamū”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 61–62
Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 345–346
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page βαμβάκιον of 199, 226