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Middle Persian
Etymology
Of native Iranian origin, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *selp-. Cognate with Parthian 𐫝𐫡𐫁 (crb /čarb/, “smooth, mild”), Pashto څورب (śorb), Baluchi چرپ (čarp, “fat”), Central Kurdish چەور (çewr, “fat”), Khotanese (tcāra-, tcārba-, “fat”), Ossetian царв (carv, “clarified butter”) and Old Armenian ճարպ (čarp, “fat”), an Iranian borrowing.
Adjective
clp • (čarb)
- mild, gentle
- fatty, oily
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- Abajev, V. I. (1958) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 290
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “ճարպ”, 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 192b
- Boyce, Mary (1977) A word-list of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Acta Iranica 9a, Série 3 – “Textes et mémoires”, vol. 2-supplément), with a reverse index by Ronald Zwanziger, Leiden, Tehran-Liège: E.J. Brill, Bibliothèque Pahlavi, page 31
- Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 97
- Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 188
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 21
- Nyberg, H. S. (1974) A Manual of Pahlavi, Part II: Glossary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 53b