𐎠𐎼𐎧

Old Persian

Etymology

Unknown; possibly of Armenian[1] (compare արքայ (arkʻay, “king”) or երախայ (eraxay, “child”)) or Urartian[2] origin.

Proper noun

𐎠𐎼𐎧 (a-r-x /Araxaʰ/)

  1. a male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Arakha
    𐏑 𐎶𐎼𐎫𐎡𐎹 𐏐 𐎠𐎼𐎧 𐏐 𐎴𐎠𐎶 𐏐 𐎠𐎼𐎷𐎡𐎴𐎡/𐎹 𐏐 𐏃𐎾𐎮𐎡𐎫𐏃𐎹 ―
    Aivaʰ martiyaʰ Araxaʰ nāmaʰ Arminiyaʰ Halditahyaʰ puçaʰ     ―
    One man named Araxa, an Armenian, son of Haldita    [3]

Descendants

  • → Akkadian:[1]
    Late Babylonian: 𒀀𒊏𒄷 (a-ra-ḫu /⁠Araḫu⁠/)
  • → Armenian: Արախա (Araxa) (learned)
  • → Elamite:[1]
    Achaemenid Elamite: 𒄩𒊩𒋡 (ha-rák-ka4 /⁠Haraka⁠/)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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, →ISBN, page 92
  2. ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1979), Die altiranischen Namen [The Old Iranian Names] (Iranisches Personennamenbuch, Band I, Faszikel II) (in German), Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, pages 14-15
  3. ^ Gindro, S. with Scarlata, S. and Widmer, P. (2013), “Old Persian Corpus”, in TITUS: Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien‎[1], DB3.

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