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Darius I, Bisotun (DB3.)

DB3. · 12

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Script, transliteration, and transcription

Old Persian cuneiform: 𐏐 𐏑 𐎶𐎼𐎫𐎡𐎹 𐏐 𐎳𐎼𐎠𐎭 𐏐 𐎴𐎠𐎶 𐏐 𐎶𐎠𐎼𐎥𐎺 𐏐 𐎠𐎺𐎶 𐏐 𐎶𐎰𐎡𐏁𐎫𐎶 𐏐 𐎠𐎤𐎢𐎴𐎺𐎫𐎠 𐏐 𐎱𐎿𐎠/𐎺
Transliteration: : 1 m-r-t-i-y : f-r-a-d : n-a-m : m-a-r-g-v : a-v-m : m-ϑ-i-š-t-m : a-ku-u-n-v-t-a : p-s-a-/v
Transcription: : 1 martiya : Frāda : nāma : Mārgava : avam : maϑištam : akunavatā : pasāva
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Translation and meaning

Recorded English translations

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man · man · Margian rebel · name · Margianian · that one · greatest · do · after

Status: Machine-generated and unreviewed
Generator version: parsiandej-en-literal-b9b9284386e8ad0489cabc25ec9f186dad5830b53f51ff3a562dcc90dffec5f7
Confidence: Not recorded
Unresolved tokens: 𐏐, 𐏐, 𐏐, 𐏐, 𐏐, 𐏐, 𐏐, 𐏐

Machine-generated and unreviewed; this is not a human-reviewed critical translation.

Words in this line

Segmentation and word analysis

Words in line 12
Position	Inscriptional form	Lemma	Analysis
1	𐏐	—	No analysis recorded
2	𐏑1 m-r-t-i-y	martiya	Documented Old Persian dictionary entry for martiya; English gloss: man. · Needs human review Machine-generated and unreviewed
3	𐎶𐎼𐎫𐎡𐎹f-r-a-d	martiya	Documented Old Persian dictionary entry for martiya; English gloss: man. · Automatically linked Machine-generated and unreviewed
4	𐏐	—	No analysis recorded
5	𐎳𐎼𐎠𐎭n-a-m	Frāda	Documented Old Persian dictionary entry for Frāda; English gloss: Margian rebel. · Automatically linked Machine-generated and unreviewed
6	𐏐	—	No analysis recorded
7	𐎴𐎠𐎶m-a-r-g-v	nāman-	Documented Old Persian dictionary entry for nāma; English gloss: name. · Automatically linked Machine-generated and unreviewed
8	𐏐	—	No analysis recorded
9	𐎶𐎠𐎼𐎥𐎺a-v-m	Mārgava	Documented Old Persian dictionary entry for Mārgava; English gloss: Margianian. · Automatically linked Machine-generated and unreviewed
10	𐏐	—	No analysis recorded
11	𐎠𐎺𐎶m-ϑ-i-š-t-m	hau̯/ava-	Documented Old Persian dictionary entry for avam; English gloss: that one. · Automatically linked Machine-generated and unreviewed
12	𐏐	—	No analysis recorded
13	𐎶𐎰𐎡𐏁𐎫𐎶a-ku-u-n-v-t-a	maθišta-	Documented Old Persian dictionary entry for maθištam; English gloss: greatest. · Automatically linked Machine-generated and unreviewed
14	𐏐	—	No analysis recorded
15	𐎠𐎤𐎢𐎴𐎺𐎫𐎠p-s-a-/v	kar	Documented Old Persian dictionary entry for akunavantā; English gloss: do. · Automatically linked Machine-generated and unreviewed
16	𐏐	—	No analysis recorded
17	𐎱𐎿𐎠/𐎺	pasāva	Documented Old Persian dictionary entry for pasāva; English gloss: after. · Automatically linked Machine-generated and unreviewed

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DB3. 12

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