Middle Persian

Noun

blnj • ‎(/*brinǰ/)

1. rice

Descendants

• Manichaean Middle Persian: brynz ‎(/*brinz/)
• Persian: برنج ‎(berenj), (rare, archaic) گرنج ‎(gorenj, goranj)
  • → Baluchi: [script needed] ‎(byrynj)
  • → Kurdish:

    Central Kurdish: برنج ‎(birinc)

    Northern Kurdish: birinc

  • → Ottoman Turkish: پرنج ‎(pirinǰ), برنج ‎(birinǰ)
    • Turkish: pirinç
    • → Adyghe: пындж ‎(pənǯ̍), (Shapsug) пыдж ‎(pəǯ̍)
    • → Avar: пиринчӏ ‎(pirinč̣)
    • → Kabardian: прунж ‎(prwnž), прундж ‎(prwnǯ̍)
      • → Abaza: прунджь ‎(prwnǯ̍)
    • → Ossetian:

      Iron: пыры́ндз ‎(pyrýnʒ)

      Digor: пириндз ‎(pirinʒ)

    • → Ubykh: p̒irinǰ
• → Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܒܪܢܓ ‎(brng)

• → Georgian: ბრინჯი ‎(brinǯi)
  • → Abkhaz: а-бры́нџь ‎(ā-brə́nǯ̍), а-пры́нџь ‎(ā-ṗrə́nǯ̍) (or from Mingrelian)
  • → Bezhta: биринжи
  • → Mingrelian: ბრინჯი ‎(brinǯi)
  • → Svan: [script needed] ‎(brinǰ)
• → Old Armenian: բրինձ ‎(brinj)
  • Middle Armenian: բրինձ ‎(brinj)
    • Armenian: բրինձ ‎(brinj)
      • → Khinalug: ппарынцӏ ‎(pːarɨnc̣)
      • → Udi: бириндз ‎(birinʒ)
• → Zazaki: birinc

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 19
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “բրինձ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935, page 493a
• Cabolov, R. L. (2001) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 184–185
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 282
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen (in German), volume III, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 597f
• Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 364
• Šagirov, A. K. (1977), Lomtatidze K. V., editor, Etimologičeskij slovarʹ adygskix (čerkesskix) jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Adyghean (Circassian) Languages] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Nauka, page 13
• Abajev, V. I. (1973) Istoriko-etimologičeskij slovarʹ osetinskovo jazyka [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow, Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, page 246