مروارید

From Persian مروارید‎ (marvârid).

مروارید • (mervarid)

1. pearl

   Synonym: اینجو‎ (inci)

• Turkish: mervarid

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “مروارید”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1152
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “مروارید”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 4583–4584
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “مروارید”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1819

From Middle Persian [script needed] (mwlwʾlyt' /morwārīd/), [script needed] (mlwʾlyt /marwārīd/) (Book Pahlavi), [Manichaean needed] (mwrwʾryd /morwārīd/) (Manichaean), 𐬨𐬏𐬭𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬁𐬭𐬍𐬝‎ (/mūravārīt̰/) (Pazend), from Old Persian *margārīta-, according to Beekes, possibly from Proto-Iranian *mŕ̥ga-ahri-ita- (“oyster”, literally “born from the shell of a bird”).[1]

Akin to Manichaean Parthian [Manichaean needed] (mwrgʾryd /morγārīd/), Sogdian [script needed] (mrγʾrt(h) /marγārt, marγārit/), Pashto مرغلره‎ (murğalara), Khotanese [script needed] pl (mrāhe, “pearl”), Central Kurdish مرواری‎ (mirwarî). Possibly related to Sanskrit मञ्जरी (mañjarī). Also compare Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs), Old Armenian մարգարիտ (margarit), Old Georgian მარგარიტი (margariṭi), მარგალიტი (margaliṭi), Iranian borrowings.

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /moɾwɒːˈɾiːd/, /mæɾwɒːˈɾiːd/
• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /moɾvɒːˈɾiːd/

مروارید or مروارید • (morvârid or marvârid) (plural مرواریدها‎ (morvârid-hâ, marvârid-hâ))

1. pearl, margarite

• گسپرج‎ (gasparaj)

• → Azerbaijani: mirvari
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: मरवारीद (marvārīd)

  Urdu: مروارید‎ (marvārīd)

• → Kazakh: меруерт (meruert)
• → Ottoman Turkish: مروارید‎ (mervarid)
  • Turkish: mervarid
• → Uyghur: مەرۋايىت‎ (merwayit)
• → Uzbek: marvarid

مروارید • (morvârid)

1. a female given name, Morvarid, Murwarid, or Murwareed, from Middle Persian

• Azerbaijani: Mirvarid, Mirvari

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “morwārīd”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 56
• Gharib, B. (1995), “mrγʾrt(h)”, in Sogdian dictionary: Sogdian–Persian–English, Tehran: Farhangan Publications, page 217a
• Philip Huyse, "Greece xiii. Greek Loanwords in Middle Iranian Languages", Encyclopædia Iranica, December 15, 2002
• غلی اشرف صادقی، «‫فاوا، مُروارید ـ مَروارید‬، گان ـ گاد‬»، فرهنگ‌نویسی، شمارهٔ ۷، ۱۳۹۲، صص ۱۰۲–۱۱۰