English Explanatory Dictionary

Xwedodah

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A type of consanguine marriage practiced before the Muslim conquest of Persia.

Word forms

Xwedodah

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Persian [script needed] (hwytw(k)ds /⁠xwēdōdah⁠⁠/), not attested in Classical Persian. Compare Iranian Persian خویدودِه (xidude), a learned borrowing.

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