KHMA

Middle Persian

Alternative forms

  • [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾlt' /⁠ārd⁠/)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Iranian *Hr̥Htáh (“ground up”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hr̥Htás (“ground up”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂l̥h₁-tós (“to grind”).

Logogram from Aramaic קמחא (qamḥā, “flour”).[1]

Noun

KHMA • (/ārd/)

  1. flour

Descendants

  • Persian: آرد (ārd / ârd, “flour”) (see there for further descendants)
  • Luri:
    • Bakhtiari: ارد (ard, “flour”)

References

  1. ^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “ārd”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 11
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