Middle Persian

Alternative forms

• [Avestan needed] ‎(taxt) (Pazend)

Noun

tʾht' • ‎(taxt)

1. throne

Derived terms

• tʾhtk' ‎(taxtag)
• tʾhtgʾh ‎(taxt-gah)

Descendants

(taking Middle Persian as representative of all Middle Iranian)

• Persian: تخت ‎(taxt)
  • Arabic: تَخْت ‎(taḵt)
  • Azeri: taxt
    • Lezgi: тахт ‎(taχt)
  • Avar: тах ‎(taχ)
  • Bashkir: тәхет ‎(täxet)
  • Kurdish: text
  • Middle Armenian: թախթ ‎(tʿaxtʿ), թախտ ‎(tʿaxt), թաղտ ‎(tʿałt), թաղթ ‎(tʿałtʿ)
    • Armenian: թախտ ‎(tʿaxt) (in some dialects via Ottoman Turkish)
  • Ottoman Turkish: تخت ‎(taht)
    • Turkish: taht
    • Romanian: taht, taft, tact
    • Serbo-Croatian: taht / тахт
• Old Armenian: տախտ ‎(taxt)
  • Armenian: տախտ ‎(taxt)
• Old Georgian: ტახტი ‎(ṭaxṭi)
  • Georgian: ტახტი ‎(ṭaxṭi)
    • Bats: ტახტ ‎(ṭaxṭ)

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “տախտ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935, page 359a
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “taxt”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 83
• Lokotsch, Karl (1927) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der europäischen Wörter orientalischen Ursprungs (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, § 1987, page 157
• Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 127