dywʾl

Middle Persian

Etymology

From Old Persian 𐎮𐎡𐎭𐎠 (didā-, “wall, fortress”) + *-wāra. The first part is from Proto-Iranian *dáyjah, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéyǵʰ-o-s (“to form, knead”), and the second part is from Proto-Iranian *wāra-.

Noun

dywʾl • (dēwār)

1. wall

Descendants

• Classical Persian: دیوَار (dēwār), دیوال (divâl) (dialectal, Tehrani), دیفال (difâl) (dialectal, Isfahan)
  • Dari: دیوار (dēwār), دیوال (dēwāl)
  • Iranian Persian: دیوار (divâr)
  • Tajik: девор (devor)
  • → Assamese: দেৱাল (dewal)
  • → Azerbaijani: divar
  • → Bashkir: диуар (diwar)
  • → Gujarati: દિવાલ (divāl), દીવાલ (dīvāl)
  • → Hindustani:
    • Hindi: दीवार (dīvār)
    • Urdu: دیوار (dīvār, dīwār)
  • → Kazakh: дуал (dual)
  • → Khalaj: duvâr
  • → Middle Bengali: দেওয়ার (deōẇar)
    • Bengali: দেওয়াল (deōẇal)
  • → Odia: ଦେୱାଲ (dēwālå)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: دیوار (duvar)
    • Turkish: duvar
    • → Bulgarian: дува́р (duvár)
    • → Greek: ντουβάρι (ntouvári)
    • → Macedonian: дувар (duvar)
    • → Serbo-Croatian:
      • Cyrillic script: ду̏ва̄р
      • Latin script: dȕvār
  • → Punjabi: ਦੀਵਾਰ (dīvār), دیوار (dīvār, dīwār)