يوناني Greek
Etymology of Arabic words: The word يوناني
=(yunani) means Greek.The above arabic word derives from the greek
root Ιωνας (Ionas) a name that was used in the antiquity to name the
Greeks/Hellines. In Turkish they use Yunan for the Greek and
Yunanistan for Greece.
The name Ionas is a common name even these days in Albanian used for males and it takes the form Joni and it has a meaning in english OURS ( our son ).
ReplyDeleteThe name Yūnān (Persian: یونان), came through Old Persian during the Achaemenid Empire (550-333 BC). It was derived from the Old Persian Yauna for the Ionian Greeks (Ancient Greek: Ἰάονες, iāones), on the western coast of Asia Minor[6][7] and were the first Greeks to come into contact with the Persians. The term would eventually be applied to all the Greeks.[8] Today, words derived from Yūnān can be found in Persian, Turkish, Azeri, Uzbek, Kurdish, Armenian (as Yūnānistan "land of Yūnān"; -istan "land" in Persian), Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Indian languages (such as Hindi and Urdu), Pashto, Laz, Indonesian, and Malay.
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