The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromψαλτήριον“psaltery”
- Classical Persian · borrowed fromسَنْتُور
- English todaysantur
Borrowed from Classical Persian سَنْتُور (santūr), of uncertain origin; sometimes suggested to be from Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion, “psaltery”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekψαλτήριον all →
psalterypsalterionpsalterium
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.