گشنیز

Persian

Alternative forms
  • گشنیج‎ (gešnij) (obsolete or dialectal)
  • کشنیز‎ (kešniz), کشنیج‎ (kešnij) (considered forms influenced by Ottoman Turkish[1])

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (gšnyc /gišnīz/, “coriander”).[2] Cognate with Central Kurdish گژنیژ‎ (gijnîj), Baluchi [script needed] (gēnīč). Compare the Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian գինձ (ginj), Old Georgian ქინძი (kinʒi), Mandarin 胡荽 (húsuī).

Pronunciation
    • (Dari): IPA(key): /ɡɪʃˈniːz/

    Noun

    گشنیز • (gešniz)

    1. coriander, cilantro

    Descendants
    • Tajik: кашнич (kašnič)
      • → Uzbek: кашнич (kashnich)
    • → Old Anatolian Turkish: كشنچ‎ (kişniç), كشنش‎ (kişniş)[3]
      • Azerbaijani: kişniş, keşniş
      • Ottoman Turkish: كشنش‎ (kişniş), كشنیش‎ (kişniş)
        • Turkish: kişniş
        • → Armenian: քիշնիշ (kʿišniš)
        • → Bulgarian: кишни́ш (kišníš) (regional)
        • → Karaim: кишниш, кишнош

    References
    1. Henning, W. B. (1963), “Coriander”, in Asia Major, New Series‎, volume X/2, page 195
    2. MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “gišnīz, kišnīz”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, pages 36
    3. Pomorska, Marzanna (2013) Materials for a Historical Dictionary of New Persian Loanwords in Old Anatolian and Ottoman Turkish from the 13th to the 16th Century (Studia Turcologica Cracoviensia; 13)‎, Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, →ISBN, page 146

    Further reading
    • Bailey, H. W. (1963), “Arya IV¹”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, volume 26, issue 1, University of London, →DOI, pages 69–72
    • Cabolov, R. L. (2001) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 390
    • Korn, Agnes (2005) Towards a Historical Grammar of Balochi: Studies in Balochi Historical Phonology and Vocabulary (Beiträge zur Iranistik; 26)‎, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, page 127
    • Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864), “گشنیز”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume II, Bonn: Adolf Marcus, page 1009
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