Talk:پنجشیر
Latest comment: 2 years ago by Zezen in topic Etymology
Etymology[edit]
Fawiki has:
Panjehir is composed of the two words "Panj" and "Hir", which in the Pahlavi and Avestan languages mean water, such as " Hirmand ". Ibn Battuta translated the Maghreb traveler Hir in Sanskrit as meaning mountain and considers the five hirs as the source of the five mountains.
We came to a place called Panjhir, which means mountains, and Panjhir means five mountains...
Zezen (talk) 15:03, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
- See also extended discussion Wiktionary:Etymology scriptorium/2021/August#5 lions, 5 hills or 5 something else?
- Ping me pls if you have final RSes for one of these. Zezen (talk) 09:14, 28 August 2021 (UTC)