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Old Persian
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Etymology
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Proper noun
1.2.1
Descendants
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𐎼𐎧𐎠
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Malagasy
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From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Old Persian
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Etymology
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Unknown.
Proper noun
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𐎼𐎧𐎠
(
r-x-a
/
Raxā
/)
Rakhā, a town in ancient
Persis
DB, column 3, line 34:
𐎼𐎧𐎠
𐏐 𐎴𐎠𐎶 𐏐 𐎺𐎼𐎭𐎴𐎶 𐏐 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿𐎡𐎹
Raxā nāma vardanam Pārsaiy, ...
Descendants
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→
Akkadian:
Late Babylonian:
𒊏𒄩𒀪
(
ra-[ḫa]-
/Raḫaʾ/
)
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1
]
→
Aramaic:
Imperial Aramaic:
𐡓𐡇𐡀
(
rḥʾ
)
[
1
]
→
Elamite:
Achaemenid Elamite:
𒊩𒋡𒀭
(
rák-ka₄-an
/Rakan/
)
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1
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References
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↑
1.0
1.1
1.2
Tavernier, Jan (
2007
)
Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550–330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts
, Peeters Publishers,
→ISBN
,
page
30
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