๐Žฅ๐Žญ๐Ž ๐Žผ๐Žน

Old Persian
An early 5th century BC relief of a Gandharan tribute bearer. This relief is from the eastern stairs leading to the Apadana at Persepolis.

Etymology

Masculine gender adjective formed from ๐Žฅ๐Žญ๐Ž ๐Žผ (g-d-a-r /โ Gaโฟdฤraโ /, โ€œGandharaโ€) +โ€Ž -๐Žน (-y /โ -yaสฐโ /, adjectival suffix), used as a substantive.

Noun

๐Žฅ๐Žญ๐Ž ๐Žผ๐Žน (g-d-a-r-y /Gaโฟdฤraya/)

  1. a Gandharan
    ๐Žก๐Žน๐Žถ ๐ ๐Žฅ๐Žญ๐Ž ๐Žผ๐Žน โ€• iyam Gaโฟdฤraya โ€• this is a Gandharan[1]

Descendants
  • โ†’ Akkadian:[2]
    Late Babylonian: ๐’‚ต๐’€ญ๐’•๐’Š’๐’„ฟ๐’Œˆ (ga-an-da-ru-i-tuโ‚„ /โ Gandaruituโ /)
  • โ†’ Elamite:[2]
    Achaemenid Elamite: ๐’ƒท๐’†ช๐’Š‘๐’…€ (kรกn-da-re-ia /โ Kandareyaโ /)

References
  1. Text: A.2P, Part No. 130, Old Persian Corpus, TITUS: Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien
  2. Tavernier, Jan (2007) Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550โ€“330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts, Peeters Publishers, โ†’ISBN
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