dywʾn'

Alternative forms
Inscriptional Pahlavi:

Etymology
From earlier, from the adjective , from , composed from (from , from , from , and  (whence also 🇨🇬), from . For the first component, compare 🇨🇬 /  / , from 🇨🇬.

For the reading, compare 🇨🇬. The forms with ē (as opposed to ī) in Persian may have been a secondary pronunciation developed due to folk etymologies; see de Blois for more.

Noun

 * 1) archive
 * 2) collected writings