πƒπŽ‘πŽ―πŽ’πŽΉ

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Old Persian

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An early 5th century BC relief of Indian tribute bearers. This relief is from the eastern stairs leading to the Apadana at Persepolis.

Etymology

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Masculine gender adjective formed from πƒπŽ‘πŽ―πŽ’π (h-i-du-u-Ε‘ /⁠Hiⁿduő⁠/, β€œIndia”) +‎ -𐎹 (-y /⁠-yaʰ⁠/, adjectival suffix), used as a substantive.

Noun

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πƒπŽ‘πŽ―πŽ’πŽΉ (Hiⁿduya)

  1. an Indian
    𐎑𐎹𐎢 𐏐 πƒπŽ‘πŽ―πŽ’πŽΉ ― iyam Hiⁿduya ― this is an Indian[1]
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Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ Text: A.2P, Part No. 130, Old Persian Corpus, TITUS: Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien
  2. ^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) β€œHindΕ«g”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 43
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 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, β†’ISBN
  4. ^ Cuneiform Texts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume IV: The Ebabbar Temple Archive and Other Texts from the Fourth to the First Millennium B.C. Ira Spar, Michael Jursa Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1 aoΓ»t 2014 [1]