گراز

From Middle Persian [script needed] (wlʾc /⁠warāz⁠/, “boar”), from Old Iranian, from Proto-Iranian *warājáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *warāȷ́ʰás (“boar”). Cognate with Central Kurdish بەراز‎ (beraz), Northern Kurdish beraz, Southern Kurdish وەراز‎ (weraz), Mazanderani وراز‎ (verâz), براز‎ (berâz, “boar”), Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬭𐬁𐬰𐬀‎ (varāza, “boar”), and Sanskrit वराह (varāha, “boar”). Akin to Old Armenian վարազ (varaz, “wild boar”) and Classical Syriac ܘܪܙܐ‎ (warzāʾ), Iranian borrowings.

گراز • (gorâz) (plural گرازها‎ (gorâz-hâ))

1. boar
   1. wild boar, wild pig (Sus scrofa, a species of swine)

      Synonym: خوک وحشی‎ (xuk-e vahši)

   2. male of any pig species

      Synonym: خوک نر‎ (xuk-e nar)

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “warāz”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “گراز”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “վարազ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 314b