𐭭𐭥𐭮𐭧𐭩

Middle Persian

Etymology

From Old Persian *Naryasanhah itself inherited from Proto-Iranian *Hnárācánhah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnárāćánsas. Doublet of 𐭭𐭩𐭫𐭠𐭥𐭮𐭭𐭢𐭩 (nylʾwsngy /⁠Nērōsang⁠/), cognate with Avestan 𐬥𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬋⸱𐬯𐬀𐬢𐬵𐬀 (nairiiō.saŋha), Parthian 𐭍𐭓𐭉𐭎𐭇𐭅 (nrysḥw /⁠Narisaxw⁠/), Sanskrit नराशंस (nárāśáṃsa).[1]

Proper noun

𐭭𐭥𐭮𐭧𐭩 • (nrsḥy /Narisah, Narseh/)

  1. a male given name, Narseh, Narsah, Narses, or Narseus

Descendants

  • Persian: نرسه (narse), نرسی (narsi)
  • → Ancient Greek: Ναρσῆς (Narsês)
  • → Coptic: ⲛⲁⲣⲥⲁⲫ (narsaph)[2]
  • → Old Armenian: Ներսեհ (Nerseh)

References

  1. ^ Gignoux, Philippe (1986), “678. Narseh”, in Noms propres sassanides en moyen-perse épigraphique [Sasanian proper names in Inscriptional Middle Persian] (Iranisches Personennamenbuch, Band II, Faszikel 2) (in French), Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
  2. ^ Pedersen, Nils Arne. “A Manichaean Historical Text.” Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik, vol. 119, 1997, pp. 193–201. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20190115. Accessed 4 Mar. 2021.
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