מהומן

Hebrew

Etymology

From Old Persian *Vahumanah via a Late Babylonian form.[1][2]

Proper noun

מְהוּמָן • (məhūmān)

  1. Mehuman, a chamberlain of Ahasuerus

References

  1. ^ Hinz, Walther (1975), “*vahumanah-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 374
  2. ^ Manfred Hutter (2015), Iranische Personennamen in der Hebräischen Bibel [Iranian Personal Names in the Hebrew Bible] (Iranisches Personennamenbuch) (in German), volume 7B, page 55
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