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From Middle Persian(MGLTA) / (nʾmk'/nāmag/, “book, letter, any written text”), equivalent to nām(“name”) (itself from Proto-Iranian*Hnā́ma(“name”)) + -ak(derivative suffix), originally a "name-list" or catalogue of products made for economic or bureaucratic purposes, this being the most common use of writing in early Iranian languages. By surface analysis, نام(nâm, “name”) + ـه(-e), but rarely analyzed or understood as such. Compare Old Armenianնամակ(namak, “letter, writing”), an Iranian borrowing.
^ Edelʹman, D. I. (2015) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 539
^ Lurje, Pavel B. (2022) “Considerations on the Etymology of Persian nāmeh”, in The Reward of the Righteous: Festschrift in Honour of Almut Hintze, pages 297—306
Further reading
MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “nāmag”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 57
Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “նամակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 425b
“nmq”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–