Reconstruction:Old Persian/Miθrafarnāh
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Old Persian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From 𐎷𐎰𐎼 (mi-θ-r /Miθraʰ/, “Mithra”) + *farnāh (“glory”).[1][2]
Proper noun
[edit]- a male given name
Descendants
[edit]- Middle Persian: (/Mihrxwarr, Mihrfarr/)
- Inscriptional Pahlavi script: 𐭬𐭲𐭥𐭤𐭥𐭫 (mtrhwl)
- → Ancient Greek: Μιθραφέρνης (Mithraphérnēs), Μιτραφέρνης (Mitraphérnēs)
- → Aramaic:
- Imperial Aramaic: 𐡌𐡕𐡓𐡐𐡓𐡍 (mtrprn)
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hinz, Walther (1975) “*miθrafarnah-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 167
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tavernier, Jan (2007) “4.2.1110. *Miθrafarnā”, 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 250
- ^ Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Μιτραφέρνης”, in Iranisches Namenbuch[2] (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 213b