W. Eilers
Articles by W. Eilers
- ALBORZ i. The Name
ALBORZ i. The Name The more ancient name of the range is not known; perhaps, however, the Assyrian name Bikni…
- BARZAN
BARZAN, part of a town, quarter (maḥalla), street (kūča). The word is listed in the old dictionaries and is preserved…
- BĀQLAVĀ
BĀQLAVĀ (or Baqlavā) i. The word. ii. The sweet. i. The Word The etymology of the word bāqlavā, found…
- BĀNŪ
BĀNŪ, originally “lady,” now also in common use as an alternative to ḵānom “Madam, Mrs.” (from Turkish xan-ım “my lord”)….
- BANDAR
BANDAR “harbor, seaport; commercial town.” The word is presumably derived from the root band “to bind” (Pers. bastan), but probably…
- BANDA
BANDA “servant.” i. The term. ii. Old Persian bandaka. i. The Term Banda (NPers.) and its precursors bandak/bandag (Mid….
- BAM (1)
BAM (also written bām) “bass,” the lowest-pitched string in music. The seventeenth-century dictionary Borhān-e qāṭeʿ states s.v. bām that “people…
- BĀLANG
BĀLANG, citron, the fruit of a species of citrus tree (Citrus medica cedrata). The candied unripe fruit is an article…
- BAḴT
BAḴT “fate, destiny.” i. The term. ii. The concept. i. The Term BAḴT (Middle and New Persian) “fate, lot,”…
- BĀḠ i. Etymology
BĀḠ i. Etymology Bāḡ, the Middle and New Persian word for “garden,” as also the Sogdian βāγ, strictly meant “piece”…
- BADAḴŠĀN
BADAḴŠĀN, the name of an area and modern province of northeastern Afghanistan, situated between the upper Amu Darya to the…
- AXTAR
AXTAR (Middle and New Persian) “star” or “constellation.” This word, which first appears in Pahlavi, is an early back-formation from…
- ĀXWARR
ĀXWARR (NPers. ĀḴOR), Middle Persian term meaning “manger” or “stall” and borrowed into Armenian as axoṙ. It is derived from…
- ASAGARTA
ASAGARTA “Sagartia,” ASAGARTIYA “Sagartian” (Old Persian; Elamite Aš-šá-kar-ti-ia, Babylonian kurSa-ga-ar-ta-a-a, Greek Sagartíā, Sagártioi), an Iranian tribe of uncertain location. In…
- ĀŠ
ĀŠ i. Etymology. ii. In modern Iran. iii. Among Zoroastrians. i. Etymology The word āš does not seem to…
- ARAKADRI
ARAKADRI- (or Arkadri-, Elam. Ḫa-rak-qatar-ri-iš, Akk. kurA-ra-ka-ad-ri-ʾ), name of uncertain meaning given in Darius I’s inscription (DB 1.37) to a…
- ABRĪŠAM
ABRĪŠAM, silk. i. Etymology. ii. Trade and production of silk and its use in crafts. iii. Silk textiles in Iran….