کمرا

See also: گمرا

Persian

Etymology

Reborrowed from Aramaic קמרא (qamrā) / Classical Syriac ܩܡܪܐ (qamrā, “girdle”) – in spite of the sense "vault" not being attested in Aramaic, and notwithstanding the sound correspondence /q/ → /k/, which is like in کما (komâ, kamâ) –, itself from Middle Persian 𐭪𐭬𐭫𐭩 (kmly /⁠kamar⁠/, “girdle”), 𐫞𐫖𐫡 (qmr /⁠kamar⁠/, “vault”), the progenitor of کمر (kamar, “belt, arch”).

Noun

کمرا • (kamrâ)

1. vault
2. the string worn by the followers of Zoroaster

   Synonym: زنار (zonnâr)

Further reading

• Ciancaglini, Claudia A. (2008) Iranian loanwords in Syriac (Beiträge zur Iranistik; 28), Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, page 248
• Henning, W. (1937) “A List of Middle-Persian and Parthian Words”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London‎^[1], volume 9, number 1, Cambridge University Press, →JSTOR, page 84
• Nöldeke, Theodor (1892) Persische Studien (Sitzungsberichte der Kais. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse; 126) (in German), volume II, Vienna, page 40