ŠNT

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See also: snt, SNT, snṯ, and šnṯ

Middle Persian

FWOTD – 20 September 2017

Alternative forms

Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *ḱelh₁-?
    Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćarHáts
    Proto-Iranian *carHdáh
    Old Persian 𐎰𐎼𐎭 (θ-r-d)
    Middle Persian ŠNT

    From Old Persian 𐎰𐎼𐎭 (θ-r-d /⁠θard-, θarad-⁠/, “year”), from Proto-Iranian *carHdáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćarHáts, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelh₁- (“to warm up, to be hot”). Compare the second component of Old Armenian loanwords նաւա-սարդ (nawa-sard), երիտա-սարդ (erita-sard), աւ-սարդ (aw-sard). Logogram from Aramaic 𐡔𐡍𐡕 (šnt, “year”)..

    Noun

    ŠNT • (sāl)

    1. year
      • Wizīdagīhā ī Zādspram, chapter 3, line 28
        PWN 1000 ŠNT gwhl Y kwp BYN zmyk' YHBWNt YKOYMWNʾt
        pad hazār sāl gōhr ī kōf andar zamīg dād ēstād
        for a thousand years the substance of the mountains had been created in the earth.

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Persian: سال (sâl)
      • → Azerbaijani: sal
      • → Bengali: সাল (śal)
      • → Gujarati: સાલ (sāl)
      • → Hindustani:
        Hindi: साल (sāl)
        Urdu: سال (sāl)
      • → Punjabi:
      • → Sindhi: سال

    References

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