گرد

گَرد (gərd) (definite accusative گَردی‎, plural گَردلَر‎)

1. Arabic spelling of gərd (“dust”)

From Middle Persian [script needed] (wrd-), [script needed] (wlt- /ward-/, “to turn, twist, writhe”), from Old Persian 𐎺𐎼𐎫 (vart-), from the Proto-Iranian root *wart- (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wart-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn, rotate”).[1][2]

Cognates include Sanskrit वर्त्ति (vártti), वर्तते (vártate, “to turn, roll”), Proto-Slavic *vьrtě̀ti (“to turn”), Latin vertere (“to turn”), German werden (“to turn (into), become”), English worth; also Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬙-‎ (var^ət-), Khotanese [script needed] (bal- /baḍ-/, “to move, writhe”), Parthian [script needed] (wrt-), [script needed] (wrd-), Sogdian wrtn.

گرد • (gerd)

1. round, circular

• گردی‎ (gerdi)

• گردیدن‎ (gardidan, “to rotate, spin, circulate”)
• گردو‎ (gerdu, “walnut”)

From Middle Persian [script needed] (gard, “dust”)[3], ultimately from the same root as the verb گَشتَن‎ (gaštan, “to wander around”).

گرد • (gard)

1. dust
2. powder

• گرده‎ (garde, “pollen”)

From Middle Persian [script needed] (gurd, “hero”).[4]

گرد • (gord)

1. hero

From Middle Persian 𐭪𐭫𐭲‎ (-klt /-kirt, -gird/), from Old Persian [script needed] (-kṛta, “made, done”), from Proto-Iranian *-kr̥táh, from the adjective *kr̥táh (“made, done”) (compare Avestan 𐬐𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬙𐬀‎ (kər^əta), Old Persian 𐎣𐎼𐎫 (k-r-t /karta/), Inscriptional Parthian -𐭊𐭓𐭕‎ (-krt /-kirt, -gird/)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kr̥tás (compare Sanskrit कृत (kṛtá)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷr̥tós, from the root *kʷer- (“to do, make”).

• جرد‎ (-jerd)

گرد or گرد • (-gerd or -gard)

1. Suffix used to form city names.