دیبا

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (dypʾk' /dēbāg/, “brocade”). Compare the Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian դիպակ (dipak), Classical Syriac [script needed] (dybgʾ /dēybāḡā/), Arabic دِيبَاج‎ (dībāj).

Noun

دیبا • (dēbā)

  1. brocade

Descendants
  • → Georgian: დიბა (diba)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: دیبا‎ (diba)
    • Turkish: diba
    • → Serbo-Croatian: díba

Further reading
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “դիպակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 670ab
  • Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, § 591, page 132
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 143
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 26

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