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Persian
Etymology
Related to تخشیدن (taxšidan, “to sit on the first place”), from Old Persian (taxša, “arrow”), from Proto-Iranian *taxša (“bow”), from Proto-Indo-European *tekʷ- (“to run”).[1]
Noun
تخش • (taxš)
- a kind of arrow
- crossbow
References
Further reading
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “تخش”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
- Vullers, Johann August (1855) “تخش”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 426