ܚܰܪܒܰܢܕܩܳܐ ḥrbndqʾ ḥarbandqā ass-driver, ass-owner
Allotrope: ܟܲܪܒܲܢܕܩܵܐ krbndqʾ karbandqā
MP *xar-bandag; NP xarbanda ass-owner, muleteer; a principal player in the game named xarbāzān; cf. NP xarbān ass-driver or owner (Steingass 452); following Telegdi's criteria on the Middle Aramaic rendering of the Iranian voiceless velar fricative /x/ (1935, 197 ff.; see § 11.3.3), ḥrbndqʾ should be the older, pre-Sasanian borrowing, krbndqʾ the later one. However, both forms occur even in the same author ● ḥrbndqʾ EN 17, 74; BB 761, 11; krbndqʾ EN 22, 89; BA 3944; BB 915, 21 ◆ LS 255a, 343a; Lagarde GA 61, 158; Duval index pers. 217