دنب

• دم‎ (dom), دمب‎ (domb)

From Middle Persian dwm(b') (/dum(b)/), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dewmbʰ- (“penis, tail, rod”).

Cognate with Avestan 𐬛𐬎𐬨𐬀‎ (duma, “penis”), Kurdish [script needed] (dūw) [script needed] (dunk), Baluchi دمب‎ (domb), Sarikoli [script needed] (δüm), Wakhi [script needed] (dümbá), Pashto لم‎ (lëm, “tail of sheep”), Ossetian дымæг (dymæg), Sogdian dwnp'k (δum/nb/pe).

Perhaps cognate with Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“top, summit”) (whence English top). Also akin to Old Armenian դմակ (dmak, “fat tail of sheep”), an Iranian borrowing.

For the sense development compare Old Armenian ձետ (jet).

• Vocalised Persian: دُنْب

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /dunb/
• (Dari): IPA^(key): /dʊnb/
• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /donb/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /dunb/

دنب • (donb)

1. tail

• دنبه‎ (donbe)
• دنبال‎ (donbâl)
• دنباله‎ (donbâle)
• دنبل‎ (donbal)
• دنبلان‎ (donbalân)

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “dwm(b')”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 28
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), “dumb-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume I, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 227
• Nourai, Ali (2011), “دم”, in An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 112
• Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 128
• Gharib, B. (1995), “dwnp'k”, in Sogdian dictionary: Sogdian–Persian–English, Tehran: Farhangan Publications, page 146
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 144