کهن

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian khwbn' (kahwan, “old”).

Adjective

کهن • (kohan) (comparative کهن‌تَر (kohan-tar), superlative کهن‌تَرین (kohan-tarin))

1. old, ancient

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: كهن (köhn, kühün, kühin, “old, ancient”)

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “kahwan”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 48
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “کهن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 4105