Manichaean Middle Persian

Noun

nhng ‎(nihang)

1. crocodile or hippopotamus

Descendants

Taking Manichaean Middle Persian as representative for all Middle Iranian:

• Persian: نهنگ ‎(nihang, nahang)
  • → Azeri: nəhəng
  • → Kurdish:

    Northern Kurdish: neheng

  • → Ottoman Turkish: [script needed] ‎(neheng)
    • Turkish: neheng
• → Aramaic

  Classical Syriac: ܢܗܢܓ ‎(nahang)

• → Old Armenian: նհանգ ‎(nhang)
  • → Georgian: ნიანგი ‎(niangi)

References

• Nyberg, H. S. (1974) A Manual of Pahlavi, Part II: Glossary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 138b
• Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004) A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols, page 242a
• Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ISBN 978-90-04-15496-4, pages 391–392
• Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 190b
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), “նհանգ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935, page 458b
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 205
• Cabolov, R. L. (2010) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 16