Middle Persian

Alternative forms

• [Avestan needed] ‎(panba) (Pazend)

Noun

pmbk' • ‎(pambag)

1. cotton
   • Greater Bundahišn

Derived terms

• pmbkyn' ‎(pambagēn, “(made of) cotton”)

Descendants

(taking Middle Persian as representative for all Middle Iranian)

• Persian: پنبه ‎(pambe)
  • → Georgian: ბამბა ‎(bamba)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: پنبه ‎(penbe)
• → Arabic: بمباج ‎(bambaj)
• → Aramaic:
  • Classical Syriac: ܦܠܒܓ ‎(palbaḡ)
• → Azeri: pambıq
• → Bashkir: мамыҡ ‎(mamïq)
• → Byzantine Greek: βαμβάκιον ‎(bambákion), βάμβαξ ‎(bámbax), βαββάκιον ‎(babbákion), βάμβυξ ‎(bámbux), βαμπάκι ‎(bampáki), βομπάκιον ‎(bompákion), παμβακίς ‎(pambakís), πάμβαξ ‎(pámbax)
  • Greek: βαμβάκι ‎(vamváki), μπαμπάκι ‎(bampáki)
    • → Bulgarian: бу́бак ‎(búbak), бъ́бек ‎(bǎ́bek)
  • → Medieval Latin: bambax, bambagium
    • Italian: bambagia
  • → Medieval Latin: bombacium, bombacinus (influenced by Ancient Greek βόμβυξ ‎(bómbux))
    • French: bombasin
    • Venetian: bonbaxo
• → Chuvash: мамӑк ‎(mamăk)
• → Georgian: ბამბაკი ‎(bambaḳi)
• Gilaki: [script needed] ‎(panba)
• Gurani: [script needed] ‎(pama)
• → Kazakh: мамық ‎(mamıq)
• Kurdish:
  • Northern Kurdish: pembî, pembû
• → Kyrgyz: мамык ‎(mamık)
• → Old Armenian: բամբակ ‎(bambak)
  • Middle Armenian: բամբակ ‎(bambak), բանբակ ‎(banbak), բամպակ ‎(bampak)
    • Armenian: բամբակ ‎(bambak)
• Lari: [script needed] ‎(pamba)
• Luri: pamma
• Mazanderani: پمبه ‎(pambe), پمه ‎(pamme)
  • Shahmirzadi: پمه ‎(pamma)
• → Ossetian:
  • Digor: бӕмпӕг ‎(bæmpæg)
  • Iron: бӕмбӕг ‎(bæmbæg)
  • → Ingush: боамби ‎(boambi)
• → Ottoman Turkish: پاموق ‎(pamuk), پامبوق ‎(pambuk)
  • Turkish: pamuk, pambuk, pamık
  • → Albanian: pambuk
  • → Bulgarian: паму́к ‎(pamúk), памбук ‎(pambuk)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: pamuk, памук
• → Old Turkic: [script needed] ‎(pamuq)
• Talysh: памбә / pambə
• → Turkmen: памык
• → Udi: памбакӏ ‎(pambaḳ)
• → Uzbek: momiq

References

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