خیری

See also: خيري‎

Persian

Alternative forms
  • خیرو‎, هیری‎ (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (hylyk' /hērīg/, “wallflower”). Compare Old Armenian հիրիկ (hirik), հիր (hir), Classical Syriac ܟܝܪܝܓ‎ (ḵīrīg), ܟܝܪܝ‎ (ḵīrī), and ܟܝܪܘܓ‎ (ḵīrūg) corresponding to the خیرو‎ (xiru) variant, Arabic خَيْرِيّ‎ (ḵayriyy), Iranian borrowings. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

خیری or خیری • (xeyri or xiri)

  1. wallflower

Descendants
  • → Middle Armenian: խիրի (xiri), խիր (xir)

Further reading
  • Considine, Patrick (1979), “A semantic approach to the identification of Iranian loanwords in Armenian”, in Bela Brogyanyi, editor, Studies in Diachronic, Synchronic, and Typological Linguistics: Festschrift for Oswald Szemérenyi on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory; 11)‎, volume I, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, page 223
  • Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen‎ (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, pages 359–361
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 43
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