𐬙𐬄𐬚𐬭𐬀

Avestan

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *támHsram, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *támHsram (“darkness; dark night”), from Proto-Indo-European *témH-(e)s-ros (“darkness”), from *temH- (“to be dark”).

Cognate with Sanskrit तमिस्र (tamisra, “darkness”), Latin tenebrae, German finster (“dark, gloomy”).

Noun

𐬙𐬄𐬚𐬭𐬀 • (tąθra) n

  1. darkness

References
  • Kanga, Kavasji Edalji (1909) “Darkness”, in An English–Avesta Dictionary‎, Bombay: The Fort Printing Press, →OCLC, page 118
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