Iranisms In Armenian Language?

[kars]

Someone in this thread raised the question of etymology of Armenian word պանիր /panir/ (“cheese”). Undoubtedly, it is a borrowed word from Middle Persian (Pahlavi) panir (“cheese”), which, in turn, is cognate to Old Persian (Awestan) paeman (“milk”). Origin of the latter is not known – many linguists suggest it may either have non-Indo-European origin or is derived from another root, not associated with proto-IE word for “milk”.

 

Loss of the original Armenian word for “cheese” is one of those “hard-to-live-with” cases in the realities of modern Armenian language, comparable to absence of such “simple” words as “red”, “white”, “man”, “shoe”, “thousand”, etc. (All these Armenian words, like thousands of others, are borrowings from Persian – and thank Mashtots for this).

 

There was another question here: are there Armenian words in Persian? Yes, there are some. Off the top of my head I can think of լավաշ /lavash/, and there are more – I have to remember, or to look up.

[vava]

Hi,

 

I started a new thread with Kanafayim's questions - you can find it HERE.

 

BTW, welcome to the board, Kanafayim.

[MiG-35]

Dear Iran01,

 

The more I hear Talish music the more I like it! There is another webpage to download it:

http://talishica.org/Music/Music-home.htm

 

When you have time can you please kindly post here a few links to pages with Persial folk music mp3 downlads?

 

Thank you in advance!