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Philip Grant
@EmbraBurgess
Researcher, Transfirmations of the Human, Berggruen. Also Zanj revolt. Translator (Persian, French-English). Feminist. Co-author, Chains of Finance (OUP 2018).
May 30, 2020 • 16 tweets • 9 min read
Thread. What is the link between #red & worms? Why is there an insect whose Latin name is '#worm little worm'? Let's start with a Sanskrit term: "krimija", "worm-made". (I know no Sanskrit, so please feel free to offer better translations). This was borrowed into Persian as قرمز. 2... qermez (contemporary Tehran pronunciation: ghermez), meaning 'red'. Above, popular Iranian children's TV character kolah ghermezi, 'red hat'. This appears to have happened in early Islamic times; in Middle Persian 'red' is 'sukhr' (New Persian sorkh). What about the worms?