khlpʾd

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Middle Persian

Etymology

From (TBNA, kh /⁠kah⁠/, chaff, straw) + (lpʾd- /⁠rubāy-⁠/), present stem of (lpwtn' /⁠rubūdan⁠/, to snatch, to rob). Ačaṙean typologically compares Old Armenian սռնակալ (sṙnakal, amber, literally chaff-keeper).

Noun

khlpʾd (kah-rubāy)

  1. amber

Descendants

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “սռնակալ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, pages 267–268
  • qhrby”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “kah-rubāy”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 48
  • Seidel, Ernst (1908) Mechithar’s, des Meisterarztes aus Her, ‘Trost bei Fiebern’: nach dem Venediger Druck vom Jahre 1832 zum ersten Male aus dem Mittelarmenischen übersetzt und erläutert (in German), Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, pages 146–148