𐎧𐏁𐏂𐎱𐎠𐎺𐎠

Nominative singular of *xšaçapāvan. Compare with *xšaθrapā and *xšaθrapānah.

𐎧𐏁𐏂𐎱𐎠𐎺𐎠 (x-š-ç-p-a-v-a /xšaçapāvā/) m

1. satrap (governor of a province under Achaemenid Persian rule)

• Middle Persian: [Book Pahlavi needed] (šsp /⁠šasab⁠/)
• → Elamite:

  Achaemenid Elamite: 𒊭𒀝𒊭𒁀𒈠 (ša-ak-ša-ba-ma /⁠šakšabama⁠/)

• Schmitt, Rüdiger (2014), “xšaçapāvān-”, in Wörterbuch Der Altpersischen Königsinschriften [Dictionary of Old Persian Royal Inscriptions] (in German), Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 284–285
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• 1976, Rüdiger Schmitt, “Der Titel „Satrap“ [The Title "Satrap"]”, in Anna Morpurgo Davies, Wolfgang Meid, editors, Studies in Greek, Italic, and Indo-European Linguistics: Offered to Leonard R. Palmer on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, June 5, 1976, pages 373-390:
• Mackenzie, D. N. (1998), “ENGLISH i. Persian Elements in English”, in Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, New York, retrieved 17 December 2016
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “šasab”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 79