گشنیز

Persian

Alternative forms

  • گشنیج (gešnij) (obsolete or dialectal)
  • کشنیز (kešniz), کشنیج (kešnij) (considered forms influenced by Ottoman Turkish[1])

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (gšnyc /⁠gišnīz⁠/, coriander).[2] Cognate with Central Kurdish گژنیژ (gijnîj), Baluchi [script needed] (gēnīč). Compare the Iranian borrowings: Old Armenian գինձ (ginj), Old Georgian ქინძი (kinʒi), Mandarin 胡荽 (húsuī).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [ɡɪʃ.níːz]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [ɡɪʃ.níːz]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [ɡiʃ.níz]

Readings
Classical reading? gišnīz
Dari reading? gišnīz
Iranian reading? gešniz
Tajik reading? gišniz

Noun

گشنیز • (gešniz)

  1. coriander, cilantro

Descendants

  • Tajik: кашнич (kašnič)
    • Uzbek: кашнич (kashnich)
  • Old Anatolian Turkish: كشنچ (kişniç), كشنش (kişniş)[3]
    • Azerbaijani: kişniş, keşniş
    • Ottoman Turkish: كشنش (kişniş), كشنیش (kişniş)
      • Turkish: kişniş
      • Armenian: քիշնիշ (kʻišniš)
      • Bulgarian: кишни́ш (kišníš) (regional)
      • Karaim: кишниш, кишнош
  • Uyghur: كەشنىز (keshniz)

References

  1. Henning, W. B. (1963) “Coriander”, in Asia Major, New Series, volume X/2, page 195
  2. MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “gišnīz, kišnīz”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 36
  3. Pomorska, Marzanna (2013) Materials for a Historical Dictionary of New Persian Loanwords in Old Anatolian and Ottoman Turkish from the 13th to the 16th Century (Studia Turcologica Cracoviensia; 13), Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, →ISBN, page 146

Further reading

  • Bailey, H. W. (1963) “Arya IV¹”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, volume 26, number 1, University of London, →DOI, pages 69–72
  • Cabolov, R. L. (2001) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 390
  • Korn, Agnes (2005) Towards a Historical Grammar of Balochi: Studies in Balochi Historical Phonology and Vocabulary (Beiträge zur Iranistik; 26), Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, page 127
  • Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “گشنیز”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume II, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 1009
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