ŠNT

See also: snt, SNT, snṯ, and šnṯ

Middle Persian

FWOTD – 20 September 2017

Alternative forms

𐭱𐭭𐭲 (ŠNT /⁠sāl⁠/) — Inscriptional Pahlavi

Etymology

From Old Persian 𐎰𐎼𐎭 (θ-r-d /⁠θard-, θarad-⁠/, “year”), from Proto-Iranian *carHdáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćarHáts, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelh₁- (“to warm up, to be hot”). Compare the second component of Old Armenian loanwords նաւա-սարդ (nawa-sard), երիտա-սարդ (erita-sard), աւ-սարդ (aw-sard). Logogram from Aramaic 𐡔𐡍𐡕 (šnt, “year”)..

Noun

ŠNT • (sāl)

year
- Wizīdagīhā ī Zādspram, chapter 3, line 28
  PWN 1000 ŠNT gwhl Y kwp BYN zmyk' YHBWNt YKOYMWNʾt
  pad hazār sāl gōhr ī kōf andar zamīg dād ēstād
  for a thousand years the substance of the mountains had been created in the earth.

Derived terms

sʾlwʾl (sālwār)
-ŠNTk' (-sālag)
-ŠNTkyh (-sālagīh)

Descendants

Persian: سال (sâl)
- → Azerbaijani: sal
- → Bengali: সাল (śal)
- → Gujarati: સાલ (sāl)
- → Hindustani:
  - Hindi: साल (sāl)
  - Urdu: سال (sāl)
- → Punjabi: سال (sāl)
- → Sindhi: سال

References

MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “sāl”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press

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