کمرا

See also: گمرا‎

Persian

Etymology

Reborrowed from Aramaic קמרא‎ (qamrā) / Classical Syriac ܩܡܪܐ‎ (qamrā, “girdle”) – in spite of the sense "vault" not being attested in Aramaic, and notwithstanding the sound correspondence /q/ → /k/, which is like in کما‎ (komâ, kamâ) –, itself from Middle Persian 𐭪𐭬𐭫𐭩‎ (kmly /kamar/, “girdle”)[[Category:|کمرا]], 𐫞𐫖𐫡‎‎ (qmr‎ /kamar/, “vault”), the progenitor of کمر‎ (kamar, “belt, arch”).

Noun

کمرا • (kamrâ)

  1. vault
  2. the string worn by the followers of Zoroaster
    Synonym: زنار‎ (zonnâr)

Further reading
  • Ciancaglini, Claudia A. (2008) Iranian loanwords in Syriac (Beiträge zur Iranistik; 28), Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, page 248
  • Henning, W. (1937), “A List of Middle-Persian and Parthian Words”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London‎, volume 9, issue 1, Cambridge University Press, →JSTOR, page 84
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1892) Persische Studien (Sitzungsberichte der Kais. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse; 126) (in German), volume II, Vienna, page 40
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