Reconstruction:Old Persian/Ciθrafarnāh

This Old Persian entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Old Persian

Alternative forms

• *Ciçafarnāh

Etymology

From *ciθrah (“shining; appearance; lineage”) +‎ *farnāh (“glory”).

Proper noun

*Ciθrafarnāh m

1. a male given name

Descendants

• → Akkadian:

  Neo-Assyrian: 𒅆𒋛𒀀𒉺𒅈𒈾 (ši-ṭir-pa-ar-na /⁠Šiṭirparna⁠/)

• → Ancient Greek: Τετραφέρνης (Tetraphérnēs)
• → Elamite:

  Achaemenid Elamite: 𒍢𒌓𒊏𒁇𒈾 (zí-ut-ra-bar-na /⁠Ziutrabarna⁠/)

Further reading

• Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Čiçafarnā”, in Iranisches Namenbuch‎^[1] (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 164
• Hinz, Walther (1975) “*čiθrafarnah-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎^[2] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 74
• Tavernier, Jan (2007) “*4.2.423. *Čiθrafarnā”, in 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 158