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Lexeme	ܙܪܕܫܬܩܢܐ
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Lexicon	Language	Meaning
Ciancaglini	English	Zoroastrians
Ciancaglini	English	followers of Mazdak, son of Bāmdād, disciple of Zarādušt, son of Khōragān (Nöldeke 1879, 445–467)

Brockelmann
Ciancaglini
Margoliouth

ܙܪܕܫܬܩܢܐ

ܙܪܕܫܬܩܢܐ zrdštqnʾ (plur.) Zoroastrians; followers of Mazdak, son of Bāmdād, disciple of Zarādušt, son of Khōragān (Nöldeke 1879, 445–467)

As Gignoux proposes (personal communication), the Syr. form represents MP Zardušt + suffix -akān, that is to say Early MP Zarduštakān, later Zarduštagān, see ManMP zrdrwštgʾn /zardruštagān/ Zoroastrian (Durkin-Meisterernst 2004, 384) ● J St 16, 21 ◆ LS 206a; PS Suppl. 116

PS Suppl. suggests that the Syr. word is a rendering of a Persian patronymic from Pers. Zardušt + -ān; this interpretation is clearly wrong.

Claudia A. Ciancaglini, Iranian Loanwords in Syriac (Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2008) ܙܪܕܫܬܩܢܐ [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, accessed on Jan. 15, 2025].

Brockelmann

Entry 60 on pp. 206

Carl Brockelmann, Lexicon Syriacum (Halis Saxonum: Sumptibus M. Niemeyer) p. 206 [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, tagged by Giovanni Gomiero, accessed on Jan. 15, 2025].

Margoliouth Supplement

Entry 7 on pp. 116

J. Payne Smith (Mrs. Margoliouth), Supplement to the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1927) p. 116 [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, tagged by Sebastian Kenoro Kiraz, accessed on Jan. 15, 2025].