I am looking for etymology of the word شوهر in Persian language, I looked in wiktionary and two other dictionaries but found nothing.
šowhar means "husband" in modern persian.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%87%D8%B1?oldid=49026403
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Sign up to join this communityI am looking for etymology of the word شوهر in Persian language, I looked in wiktionary and two other dictionaries but found nothing.
šowhar means "husband" in modern persian.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%87%D8%B1?oldid=49026403
The Persian word has cognates in many IE languages, most meaning father-in-law or brother-in-law: German Schwager, Gothic swaihra, Latin socer, Greek `εκυρός, Sanskrit śvaśura-s, Russian свёкор, Lithuanian šešuras, Welsh chwegr, Albanian vjehërr, Armenian skesrayr
See Pokorny’s entry for su̯ekrū́- .
Persian šōhar (šawhar) seems to imply Iranian *xšawdar-, and the parallel form šōy would be from the nominative *xšawdā, presumably an actor noun from the verbal stem *xšawd- “to wash, to become liquid”, as in Persian šustan, šōy- “to wash”, or Avestan xšudra- “fluid, semen”.