Reconstruction:Old Persian/Varufarnāh

This Old Persian entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Old Persian

Etymology

From *varuš (“wide”) +‎ *farnah n (“glory”).[1][2]

Proper noun

*Varufarnāh

  1. a male given name

Descendants

  • → Ancient Greek: Ὀλοφέρνης (Olophérnēs), Ὀροφέρνης (Orophérnēs)
    • → Hebrew: הולופרנס
    • → Latin: Holofernes

References

  1. ^ Hinz, Walther (1975), “*varufarnah-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 257
  2. ^ Manfred Hutter (2015), Iranische Personennamen in der Hebräischen Bibel [Iranian Personal Names in the Hebrew Bible] (Iranisches Personennamenbuch) (in German), volume 7B, page 38
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