pmbk'

Middle Persian

Alternative forms

• 𐬞𐬀𐬥𐬠𐬀 (panba) (Pazend)

Etymology

Related to Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux, “silk-worm”) (which Beekes calls an Anatolian loan) and Khotanese [script needed] (mamṃa-, “cotton (?)”) (from *mamma- ← *bamba-). The ultimate origin is unknown.

Noun

pmbk' • (pambag)

1. (Book Pahlavi) cotton
   • Greater Bundahišn

Derived terms

• pmbkyn' (pambagēn, “(made of) cotton”)

Descendants

(taking Middle Persian as representative for all Middle Iranian)

• Persian: پنبه (panbe)
  • → Georgian: ბამბა (bamba)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: پنبه (penbe)
    • → Turkish: pembe
    • → Armenian: փեմպե (pʻempe)
    • →⇒ Laz: ფემბელი (pembeli)
  • → Arabic: بمبه (bamba)
• → Arabic: بمباج (bambaj)
• → Aramaic:
  • Classical Syriac: ܦܠܒܓ (palbaḡ)
• → Bashkir: мамыҡ (mamıq)
• → Byzantine Greek: βαμβάκιον (bambákion), βάμβαξ (bámbax), βαββάκιον (babbákion), βάμβυξ (bámbux), βαμπάκι (bampáki), βομπάκιον (bompákion), παμβακίς (pambakís), πάμβαξ (pámbax)
  • Greek: βαμβάκι (vamváki), μπαμπάκι (bampáki)
    • → Bulgarian: бу́бак (búbak), бъ́бек (bǎ́bek)
  • → Medieval Latin: bambax, bambagium
    • Italian: bambagia
      • →? Russian: бума́га (bumága)
  • → Medieval Latin: bombacium, bombacinus (influenced by Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux))
    • French: bombasin
    • Venetian: bonbaxo
• → Chuvash: мамӑк (mamăk)
• → Georgian: ბამბაკი (bambaḳi)
• Gilaki: پنبه (panba)
• Gurani: [script needed] (pama)
• → Kazakh: мамық (mamyq)
• Kurdish:
  • Northern Kurdish: pembî, pembû
• → Kyrgyz: мамык (mamyk)
• → Old Armenian: բամբակ (bambak)
  • Middle Armenian: բամբակ (bambak), բանբակ (banbak), բամպակ (bampak)
    • Armenian: բամբակ (bambak)
• Larestani: [script needed] (pamba)
• Southern Luri: پَمَّه (pamme)
• Mazanderani: پمبه (pambe), پمه (pamme)
  • Shahmirzadi: پمه (pamma)
• → Ossetian:
  • Digor Ossetian: бӕмпӕг (bæmpæg)
  • Iron Ossetian: бӕмбӕг (bæmbæg)
  • → Ingush: боамби (boambi)
• → Old Anatolian Turkish: [script needed] (pambuk)
  • → Azerbaijani: pambıq
  • → Ottoman Turkish: پاموق (pamuk), پامبوق (pambuk)
    • Turkish: pamuk, pambuk, pamık
    • → Albanian: pambuk
    • → Armenian: փամպուխ (pʻampux)
    • → Bulgarian: паму́к (pamúk), памбук (pambuk)
    • → Hungarian: pamut
    • → Macedonian: памук (pamuk)
    • → Serbo-Croatian: pamuk, памук
• → Old Turkic: [script needed] (pamuq)
• Talysh: памбә / pambə
• → Turkmen: памык
• → Udi: памбакӏ (pambaḳ)
• → Uzbek: momiq

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “pambag”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 64
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1887) Etymologie und Lautlehre der ossetischen Sprache (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 121
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1895) Persische Studien [Persian Studies] (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 255
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 116
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բամբակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 401
• Abajev, V. I. (1973) “bæmbæg, bæmpæg”, in Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, pages 249–250
• Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, pages 323–324
• Cabolov, R. L. (2010) “pambū, pambū | pamū”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 61–62
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 345–346
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page βαμβάκιον of 199, 226