Where does “خرمذهبی” come from?
خرمذهبی (Persian) comes from Persian مذهبی, from Persian مذهب, from Arabic مَذْهَب, from Arabic ه, from Arabic كَهْرَبَاء, from Persian کهربا, from Persian کاه, from Persian کاستن — to see; to look.
خرمذهبی (Persian): uncritically religious person; religious nutjob
Definitions
- uncritically religious person; religious nutjob
Ancestry of “خرمذهبی”, step by step
خرمذهبی traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Persian مذهبی
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Persian | مذهبی | religious |
| 2 | Persian | مذهب | religion; faith |
| 3 | Arabic | مَذْهَب | sect; way of going off; doctrine, school |
| 4 | Arabic | ه | him, his, it, its; AH; Banū Ṭayyiʾ form of أَ |
| 5 | Arabic | كَهْرَبَاء | electricity |
| 6 | Persian | کهربا | amber |
| 7 | Persian | کاه | chaff; straw; hay |
| 8 | Persian | کاستن | to decrease |
| 9 | Proto-Iranian | kas- | to be small, diminish, lessen |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷeḱ- | to see; to look |