πŽ₯𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹

Old Persian
An early 5th century BC relief of a Gandharan tribute bearer. This relief is from the eastern stairs leading to the Apadana at Persepolis.

Etymology

Masculine gender adjective formed from πŽ₯𐎭𐎠𐎼 (g-d-a-r /Gaⁿdāra/, β€œGandhara”) +β€Ž -𐎹 (-y /-yaΚ°/, adjectival suffix), used as a substantive.

Noun

πŽ₯𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹 (g-d-a-r-y Gaⁿdāraya)

  1. a Gandharan
    𐎑𐎹𐎢 𐏐 πŽ₯𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹 ― iyam Gaⁿdāraya ― this is a Gandharan[1]

Descendants
  • β†’ Akkadian:[2]
    Late Babylonian: π’‚΅π’€­π’•π’Š’π’„Ώπ’Œˆ (ga-an-da-ru-i-tuβ‚„ /Gandaruitu/)
  • β†’ Elamite:[2]
    Achaemenid Elamite: π’ƒ·π’†ͺπ’Š‘π’…€ (kΓ‘n-da-re-ia /Kandareya/)

References
  1. Text: A.2P, Part No. 130, Old Persian Corpus, TITUS: Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien
  2. Tavernier, Jan (2007) Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550–330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts, Peeters Publishers, β†’ISBN
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