Where does “ژاپنی” come from?

ژاپنی (Persian) comes from Persian ژاپن, from French japon, from Portuguese Japão, from Malay Jepang, from Hokkien 日本, from Middle Chinese 日本 — Land of the Rising Sun.

ژاپنی (Persian): Japanese

Definitions

  1. Japanese

Ancestry of “ژاپنی”, step by step

ژاپنی traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Persian ژاپن

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Persianژاپن—
2Frenchjaponjapanware; Japanese porcelain
3PortugueseJapãoJapanese
4MalayJepangJapanese
5Hokkien日本Japan; Japanese; Japan
6Middle Chinese日本Land of the Rising Sun

via Persian ـی

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1PersianـیForms nouns or adjectives from nouns; Forms...
2Middle Persian-yk'—
3Old Persian-𐎡𐎣of, pertaining to, belonging to, related to
4Proto-Indo-Iranian-kasCreates deadjectival and desubstantival...
5Proto-Indo-European-ḱos-y, -ic
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