gwhl

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Middle Persian

Etymology

From Old Persian *gauθrā, borrowed from Old Median *gauθrā. from Proto-Iranian *gawθraH (“jewel”). Cognate with Northern Kurdish gewher, Bactrian γωνριγο (gōnrigo), Pashto غوره (ǧwëra).

Noun

gwhl • (gōhr, gōhar)

  1. substance, essence, nature
    • 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.
  2. jewel
  3. stock, lineage

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