Etymology

tahchin

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Today it means: An Iranian rice dish. Full definition →

Persian تهچین (tah-čin) ← Proto-Indo-European *skey- ← Middle Persian [script needed] (th /⁠tah⁠/)
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*tews-?
  2. Middle Persian[script needed] (th /⁠tah⁠/)
  3. Persianته (tah)
  4. Proto-Indo-European*sek-?
  5. Proto-Indo-European*skey-
  6. Persianچین (čin)
  7. Persianتهچین (tah-čin)
  8. English todaytahchin

Borrowed from Persian تهچین (tah-čin), from ته (tah, “bottom”) + چین (čin, “to arrange”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.