جولاهک

Persian

Alternative forms

• جولهه (julaha), جولاهه (julâha)
• جوهاه (julâh), جلاه (jollâh, jolâh), جوله (julah), چولاه (čulâh), چوله (čulah) (back-formed minus imagined ـک (-ak))

Etymology

Already Middle Persian, as seen in Arabic جُلَاهِق (julāhiq). From some descendant of Sanskrit कौलिक (kaulika, “weaver”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒuː.lɑː.hak]

Readings
Classical reading?	jūlāhak

Noun

جولاهک • (julâhak)

1. weaver
2. spider

Descendants

• → Middle Armenian: ջուլհակ (ǰulhak), ջուլուհակ (ǰuluhak)
  • Armenian: ջուլհակ (ǰulhak), ջուլահակ (ǰulahak) — obsolete

Further reading

• Müller, Friedrich (1894) “Pahlawi und neupersische Etymologien”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes (in German), volume 8, page 192
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “جولاهك”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 379
• Vullers, Johann August (1855) “جولاه”, 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^[1] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 541a
• Vullers, Johann August (1855) “چولاه”, 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^[2] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 602a