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khlpʾd
khlpʾd
Middle Persian
Noun
khlpʾd • (kah-rubāy)
Descendants
- Persian: کهربای (kahrobây), کهربا (kahrobâ)
- Tajik: каҳрабо (kahrabo)
- > Uzbek: qahrabo
- > Adyghe: кӏэхьрэбэ (č̣̍ăḥrăbă)
- > Arabic: كهرباء (kahrabāʾ), كهرمان (kahramān)
- > Azeri: kəhrəba
- > Bashkir: гәрәбә (gäräbä)
- > Georgian: ქარვა (karva)
- > Gujarati: કેરબો (kērabō)
- > Hindustani:
- Hindi: कहरुवा (kahruvā)
- Urdu: کہربا (kahrubā)
- > Ottoman Turkish: [script needed] (kehrübar), [script needed] (kehribar), كهربا (kehrübâ), [script needed] (keherbar)
- Turkish: kehrübar, kehribar, kehlibar
- > Albanian: qelibar
- > Armenian: քեհրիբար (kʿehribar), քյա̈րբա̈ր (kʿyärbär), քա̈հրըբար (kʿährəbar)
- > Bulgarian: кехлибар (kehlibar)
- > Greek: κεχριμπάρι (kechrimpári)
- > Macedonian: килибар (kilibar)
- > Romanian: chihlimbar
- > Serbo-Croatian: ćilibar / ћилибар
- > Swahili: kaharabu
- > Tatar: гәрәбә (gäräbä)
- Tajik: каҳрабо (kahrabo)
- > Chinese: 琥珀 (OC *qʰˁraʔ pʰˁrak > MC huoX pʰɣæk > Mandarin hǔpò) (taking Middle Persian as representative for all Middle Iranian languages)
- > Classical Syriac: ܩܗܪܒܝ (qahrḇāy), ܩܗܪܐܒܝ (qhrʾby)
References
- “qhrby”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “kah-rubāy”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 48