πƒπŽΌπŽ’πŽΊπŽ«πŽ‘πŽΉ

Old Persian
An early 5th century BC relief of an Arachosian soldier. This relief is from the tomb of Xerxes I at Naqsh-e Rostam.

Etymology

Masculine gender adjective formed from πƒπŽΌπŽ’πŽΊπŽ«πŽ‘π (h-r-u-v-t-i-Ε‘ /HarauvatiΕ‘/, β€œArachosia”) +β€Ž -𐎑𐎹 (-i-y /-yaΚ°/, adjectival suffix), used as a substantive.

Noun

πƒπŽΌπŽ’πŽΊπŽ«πŽ‘πŽΉ (h-r-u-v-t-i-y Harauvatiya)

  1. an Arachosian
    𐎑𐎹𐎢 𐏐 πƒπŽΌπŽ’πŽΊπŽ«πŽ‘πŽΉ ― iyam Harauvatiya ― this is an Arachosian[1]

Descendants
  • β†’ Elamite:
    Achaemenid Elamite: π’„―π’Š’π’ˆ π’‹Ύπ’…€ (har-[ru]-ma-ti-ia /Harumatiya/)[2]

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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