ناهار

Etymology
The adjective is most probably from +, exactly equivalent to 🇨🇬. Compare also 🇨🇬, an Iranian borrowing. The Persian dictionaries derive the noun for “lunch” from this adjective, saying that it originally referred to something eaten on an empty stomach (breakfast). On the other hand, John R. Perry (emerite professor of Persian at the University of Chicago) derives the noun from with a vocalic assimilation that is not unusual in Persian; compare colloquial  for. In fact, both the noun and the adjective were also formerly spelt. It might be hypothesised that the inherited word was associated with the Arabic based on the parallelism with, which is eventually derived from. Compare also.

Noun

 * 1) lunch

Adjective

 * 1) not having eaten since having awoken