blnc

Middle Persian

Alternative forms

• 𐫁𐫡𐫏𐫗𐫉 (brynz /⁠brinz⁠/), 𐫃𐫇𐫡𐫏𐫗𐫝 (gwrync /⁠gurinǰ⁠/) — Manichaean

Etymology

From Old Persian *vrinjiš (“rice”).

Noun

blnc • (/brinǰ/)

1. rice

Descendants

• Classical Persian: برنج (birinj), (rare, archaic) گرنج (gurinj, guranj)
  • Dari: برنج (birinj)
  • Iranian Persian: برنج (berenj)
  • Tajik: биринҷ (birinj)
  • → Baluchi: برنج (byrynj)
  • → Kazakh: күріш (kürış)
  • → Kurdish:

    Central Kurdish: بِرِنج (birinc)

    Northern Kurdish: birinc

  • → Ottoman Turkish: برنج (birinǰ), پرنج (pirinç) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Uyghur: گۈرۈچ (gürüch)
  • → Zazaki: birinc
• → Old Armenian: բրինձ (brinj) (see there for further descendants)
• → Georgian: ბრინჯი (brinǯi) (see there for further descendants)
• → Classical Syriac: ܒܪܢܓ (brng)

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 19
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բրինձ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 493a
• Cabolov, R. L. (2001) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 184–185
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary]‎^[1] (in German), volume III, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 282
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[2] (in German), volume III, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 597f
• Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 364
• Шагиров, А. К. (1977) К. В. Ломтатидзе, editor, Этимологический словарь адыгских (черкесских) языков [Etymological Dictionary of Adyghean (Circassian) Languages]‎^[3] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Nauka, page 13
• Abajev, V. I. (1973) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 246