Talk:אצה

Persian cognate
Could you identify/verify the Persian cognate? --WikiTiki89 23:36, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I couldn't find it, and the word does not look like a Persian word. where did you find this? Can you show me your source? --Z 12:05, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I got it from he.wikt. אצה, it's there since a 2006 revision. Enosh (talk) 13:48, 31 March 2016 (UTC)


 * (e/c) It looks like he just copied it from he.wikt he:אצה, which says "בפרסית: אַטָּא", meaning "in Persian: ʾaṭṭā" (theoretically implying a spelling such as اطّا or اتّا, but it could be referring to any historical variety of Persian). That has been there since 2005. --WikiTiki89 13:53, 31 March 2016 (UTC)


 * I found, a species of poplar tree, in Dehkhoda Dictionary, which says it is a Greek loanword borrowed via Arabic, mentioning , , and as its by-forms. --Z 15:56, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
 * That doesn't look related. It's also possible that ט was a misreading of a ס, which would make more phonological sense. Is there anything like اصا or اسا? --WikiTiki89 17:09, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
 * That was my first thought, but the only similar word is . --Z 07:09, 13 April 2016 (UTC)