ܕܰܚܫܳܐ dḥšʾ daḥšā guard, executioner
Derivative: ܕܲܚܫܵܝܬܵܐ dḥšytʾ daḥšāytā wife of the chief of the guards. Allotrope: ܕܵܟܣܵܢ dksn dāksān (chief) of the guards
Parth. *daxš-, attested in Parth. *daxšpat a title (Greenfield 1987, 258). Cf. Arm. LW dahič executioner, police office (Hübschmann AG 133, no. 159), dahčapet chief guard, executioner. — Hatrean dḥšpṭʾ( ← Parth. *daxšpat, see Greenfield, cit.), title attributed to the god Nerval, of Babylonian origin, which is a god of the underworld. According to Shaked (1985, 521–522 and n. 46) Syr. dḥšʾ was borrowed from Pers. *dahīč, reflected in Arm. LW dahič, and is an indirect witness of the Ir. suffix -īča-. In fact, MP dahīč [dhyc] "executioner" seems to be attested: see Henning 1954a, 479. As regards dksn see Maggi 2003, no. 9; the word is probably an allotrope of Syr. dḥšʾ, with the Persian morphologization through addition of the Pers. plural suffix -ān, whereas dḥšytʾ is a morphological adaptation by means of the Syr. feminine ending. As to the rendering of Ir. /č/ with Syr. š and s see § 11.3.4. Possibly Parth. *daxšpat is the same word as Manichaean Sogdian δšʾpt /δašāpat/, a proper name that Durkin-Meisterernst 2004, 142 argues to be a miswritten form for *δasāpat, lit. "protected by ten" ● dḥšʾ Gn 37, 36; 2Rg 24, 14; Jer 24, 1; 29, 2; Mt 26, 58; Afr 38, 3; ES 1, 91D; Narsai 1, 333, 5 (s.l.); dḥšytʾ (Pothiphar Gn 37, 36) Bab 214, 5; dksn CommD, see Van Rompay 1986, 110.21 (ed.), 142.3 (transl.) ◆ LS 149b; Lagarde GA 31, 78