gwhl

Middle Persian

From Old Persian *gauθra- or *gavaθra-. Akin to Kurdish gewher, Sanskrit गोत्र (gotra, “species, lineage”).

gwhl • (gōhr, gōhar)

substance, essence, nature
- 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.
jewel
stock, lineage

Persian: گوهر‎ (gauhar)
- → Arabic: جوهر‎ (jauhar), جوهرة‎ (jauhara), pl جواهر‎ (jawāhir)
  - Maltese: ġawhra
  - → Chechen: жовхӏар (žowhar)
  - → Indonesian: jauhar
  - → Malay: Johor
  - → Middle Armenian: ջոհար (ǰohar)
  - → Persian: جوهر‎ (jauhar), pl جواهر‎ (javâher)
    - → Ottoman Turkish: جوهر‎ (cevher), pl جواهر‎ (cevahir)
      - Turkish: cevher, pl cevehir
      - → Greek: τζοβαΐρι (tzovaḯri)
      - → Serbo-Croatian: džèvēr/џѐве̄р, dževáhir/џева́хир
- → Bashkir: гәүһәр (gäwhär), Гәүһәр (Gäwhär)
- → Turkmen: göwher
→ Aramaic:
- Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: גוהר‎ (guhar)
- Mandaic Aramaic: ࡂࡅࡄࡀࡓ‎ (guhar)
→ Georgian: გოარი (goari)
→ Old Armenian: գոհար (gohar)

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