ایرا

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian ʾyd rʾy (ēd rāy, “on account of this, because”), the latter a lexicalization of the locative singular of Proto-Iranian *rād-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HraHdʰ-, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₁dʰ- (“to think, arrange, accomplish”).[1]

Conjunction

ایرا • (irâ)

  1. (obsolete) herefore, for this reason, because

References
  1. Edelʹman, D. I. (2020) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 6, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 451; 456
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