رخش

See also: رجس

Persian

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Proto-Iranian *ra(n)ǰ- (“to colour, dye”) (compare Sogdian [script needed] (rɣš- /⁠raxš⁠/, “Rakhsh”), Khwarezmian رختک (rxtk /⁠raxtak⁠/, “red”), Mazanderani رش (raš, “red (of cattle)”), Northern Kurdish reş (“black”), Talysh رش (rəş, “light brown”)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian (compare Sanskrit रञ्ज् (rañj, “to be dyed or coloured, to redden, grow red, glow”)), from Proto-Indo-European *reg- (“to dye”).

The Persian word is not inherited but is borrowed probably from the Sogdian cognate.

Akin to Old Armenian երաշխ (erašx), an Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation
 

Readings
Classical reading? raxš
Dari reading? raxš
Iranian reading? raxš
Tajik reading? raxš

Adjective

رخش • (raxš)

  1. coloured red and white; spotted red or white.
  2. red
  3. chestnut, brown

Proper noun

رخش • (raxš)

  1. Rakhsh, the horse of Rustam

Etymology 2

From Proto-Iranian *rúxš (“to shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-. Cognate with Ossetian рухс (ruxs, “light”).

Pronunciation
 

Readings
Classical reading? ruxš
Dari reading? ruxš
Iranian reading? roxš
Tajik reading? ruxš

Noun

رخش • (roxš)

  1. light
References
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “رخش”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  • Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 313, 321
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