# pmbk'
## Middle Persian
### Alternative forms

* 𐬞𐬀𐬥𐬠𐬀 (panba) (Pazend)

### Etymology

Related to Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux, “silk-worm”) (which Beekes calls an Anatolian loan) and Khotanese [script needed] (mamṃa-, “cotton (?)”) (from *mamma- ← *bamba-). The ultimate origin is unknown.

### Noun

pmbk' • (pambag)
* (Book Pahlavi) cotton
** Greater Bundahišn

#### Derived terms

* pmbkyn' (pambagēn, “(made of) cotton”)

#### Descendants

(taking Middle Persian as representative for all Middle Iranian)
* Persian: پنبه (panbe)
** → Georgian: ბამბა (bamba)
** → Ottoman Turkish: پنبه (penbe)
*** → Turkish: pembe
*** → Armenian: փեմպե (pʻempe)
*** →⇒ Laz: ფემბელი (pembeli)
** → Arabic: بمبه (bamba)
* → Arabic: بمباج (bambaj)
* → Aramaic:
** Classical Syriac: ܦܠܒܓ (palbaḡ)
* → Bashkir: мамыҡ (mamıq)
* → Byzantine Greek: βαμβάκιον (bambákion), βάμβαξ (bámbax), βαββάκιον (babbákion), βάμβυξ (bámbux), βαμπάκι (bampáki), βομπάκιον (bompákion), παμβακίς (pambakís), πάμβαξ (pámbax)
** Greek: βαμβάκι (vamváki), μπαμπάκι (bampáki)
*** → Bulgarian: бу́бак (búbak), бъ́бек (bǎ́bek)
** → Medieval Latin: bambax, bambagium
*** Italian: bambagia
**** →? Russian: бума́га (bumága)
** → Medieval Latin: bombacium, bombacinus (influenced by Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux))
*** French: bombasin
*** Venetan: bonbaxo
* → Chuvash: мамӑк (mamăk)
* → Georgian: ბამბაკი (bambaḳi)
* Gilaki: پنبه (panba)
* Gurani: [script needed] (pama)
* → Kazakh: мамық (mamyq)
* Kurdish:
** Northern Kurdish: pembî, pembû
* → Kyrgyz: мамык (mamyk)
* → Old Armenian: բամբակ (bambak)
** Middle Armenian: բամբակ (bambak), բանբակ (banbak), բամպակ (bampak)
*** Armenian: բամբակ (bambak)
* Larestani: [script needed] (pamba)
* Southern Luri: پَمَّه (pamme)
* Mazanderani: پمبه (pambe), پمه (pamme)
** Shahmirzadi: پمه (pamma)
* → Ossetian:
** Digor Ossetian: бӕмпӕг (bæmpæg)
** Iron Ossetian: бӕмбӕг (bæmbæg)
** → Ingush: боамби (boambi)
* → Old Anatolian Turkish: پنبوق (panbuq)
** Azerbaijani: pambıq
** Gagauz: pamuk
** Ottoman Turkish: پاموق (pamuk), پامبوق (pambuk)
*** Turkish: pamuk, pambuk, pamık
*** → Albanian: pambuk
*** → Armenian: փամպուխ (pʻampux)
*** → Bulgarian: паму́к (pamúk), памбук (pambuk)
*** → Hungarian: pamut
*** → Macedonian: памук (pamuk)
*** → Serbo-Croatian: pamuk, памук
* → Old Turkic: [script needed] (pamuq)
* Talysh: памбә / pambə
* → Turkmen: памык
* → Udi: памбакӏ (pambaḳ)
* → Uzbek: momiq

#### References

* MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “pambag”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 64
* Hübschmann, Heinrich (1887) Etymologie und Lautlehre der ossetischen Sprache (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 121
* Hübschmann, Heinrich (1895) Persische Studien [Persian Studies] (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 255
* Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 116
* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բամբակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 401
* Abajev, V. I. (1973) “bæmbæg, bæmpæg”, in Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, pages 249–250
* Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, pages 323–324
* Cabolov, R. L. (2010) “pambū, pambū | pamū”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 61–62
* Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 345–346
* Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page βαμβάκιον of 199, 226