ارتشدار

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (ʾltyštʾl /⁠artēštâr⁠/, “warrior”),[1][2] borrowed from Avestan 𐬭𐬀𐬚𐬀𐬉𐬱𐬙𐬀 (raθaēšta) / 𐬭𐬀𐬚𐬀𐬉𐬱𐬙𐬀𐬭 (raθaēštar) / 𐬭𐬀𐬚𐬋𐬌𐬱𐬙𐬁 (raθōištā, “warrior”, literally “standing in a chariot”), from Avestan 𐬭𐬀𐬚𐬀 (raθa, “chariot, car”) + Proto-Iranian *staH- (“to place, set, stand”), the latter from Proto-Indo-Iranian *staH-, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”).[2][3] Cognate with Sanskrit रथेष्ठ (ratheṣṭha, “standing on a chariot, (of such a) warrior”).

Noun

ارتشدار • (artešdâr)

  1. warrior
  2. soldier

Derived terms

References
  1. MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “ʾltyštʾl”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 11
  2. Edelʹman, D. I. (2020) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 6, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 389
  3. Cheung, Johnny (2007) “pages-358-61”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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