Etymology

Nowruz

Now·ruz
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Today it means: The New Year in the Iranian and Zoroastrian calendars, celebrated on the spring equinox. Full definition →

Iranian Persian نُوروز (nowruz) ← Middle Persian nwklwc ← Old Persian 𐎼𐎢𐎨𐏃 (r-u-c-h)
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*nu
  2. Proto-Indo-European*néwos
  3. Proto-Indo-Iranian*náwas
  4. Proto-Iranian*náwah
  5. Middle Persian𐭭𐭥𐭪𐭩 (nʿky)
  6. Proto-Indo-European*lewk-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*léwk-os
  8. Proto-Indo-Iranian*ráwčas
  9. Proto-Iranian*ráwčah
  10. Old Persian𐎼𐎢𐎨𐏃 (r-u-c-h)
  11. Middle Persian𐭩𐭥𐭬 (yʿm)
  12. Middle Persiannwklwc
  13. Iranian Persianنُوروز (nowruz)
  14. English todayNowruz

Borrowed from Iranian Persian نُوروز (nowruz), from Classical Persian نَوْروز (nawrōz), from نَو (naw, “new”) + روز (rōz, “day”). The first element is a distant cognate of English new, while the second is a distant cognate of English light, both being derived from different formations of the Proto-Indo-European roots *new- and *lewk-, respectively.

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