zndyk'

Middle Persian

Noun

zndyk' • (zandīk) (Book Pahlavi)

1. heretic
2. Manichaean

Descendants

• Persian: زندیک (zandik, “heretic, Manichaean”)
• → Arabic: زِنْدِيق (zindīq, “heretic”)
  • → English: zindiq
  • → Ottoman Turkish: زندیق (zındık)
    • Turkish: zındık
  • → Persian: زندیق (zendiq)
• → Old Armenian: զանդիկ (zandik)

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “zandīk”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 98

Further reading

• Zandik on Wikipedia.Wikipedia