tʾht'

Middle Persian

Alternative forms

• 𐬙𐬀𐬑𐬙 (taxt) (Pazend)

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *taxta-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *táktas, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“to cover”).

Noun

tʾht' • (taxt)

1. throne

Derived terms

• tʾhtk' (taxtag)
• tʾhtgʾh (taxt-gah)

Descendants

(taking Middle Persian as representative of all Middle Iranian)

• Persian: تخت (taxt)
  • → Arabic: تَخْت (taḵt)
  • → Azerbaijani: təxt, taxt
  • → Avar: тах (tax)
  • → Bashkir: тәхет (təxet)
  • → Chagatai: تخت
    • Uyghur: تەخت (text)
    • Uzbek: taxt
  • → Gujarati: તખ્ત (takht)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: तख़्त (taxt)

    Urdu: تخت (taxt)

  • → Kazakh: тақ (taq)
  • → Kyrgyz: так (tak)
  • → Lezgi: тахт (taχt)
  • → Middle Armenian: թախթ (tʻaxtʻ), թախտ (tʻaxt), թաղտ (tʻaġt), թաղթ (tʻaġtʻ)
    • Armenian: (in some dialects via Ottoman Turkish) թախտ (tʻaxt)
  • → Malay: takhta
    • Indonesian: takhta
  • → Northern Kurdish: text
  • → Ottoman Turkish: تخت (taht)
    • Turkish: taht
    • → Romanian: taht, taft
    • → Serbo-Croatian: taht, тахт
  • → Pashto: تخت (taxt)
  • → Punjabi:
    • Gurmukhi script: ਤਖ਼ਤ (taxat)
    • Shahmukhi script: تَخْت (taxt)
  • → Sindhi:
    • Arabic script: تخت
    • Devanagari script: तख्तु
  • → Tatar: тәхет (täxet)
  • → Turkmen: tagt
• Old Armenian: տախտ (taxt)
  • Armenian: տախտ (taxt)
• Old Georgian: ტახტი (ṭaxṭi)
  • Georgian: ტახტი (ṭaxṭi)
    • Bats: ტახტ (ṭaxṭ)

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “տախտ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 359a
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “taxt”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 83
• Lokotsch, Karl (1927) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der europäischen Wörter orientalischen Ursprungs (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, § 1987, page 157
• Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 127