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)

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 (taꭓt)
- → 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