Middle Persian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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

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pmbk' (pambag)

  1. (Book Pahlavi) cotton
    • Greater Bundahišn

Derived terms

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  • pmbkyn' (pambagēn, (made of) cotton)

Descendants

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(taking Middle Persian as representative for all Middle Iranian)

References

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  • 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