بردي

Together with Latin buda (“cattail”) declared a Berber borrowing; though a connection to Old Armenian պրտու (prtu, “paper reed”) complicates this; maybe both the Armenian and Arabic have been mediated by Aramaic, considering that the particular meaning of paper reed is distributed right in the historical Aramaic language area, and that Persian بوری (buri), بوریه (buriya), بوریه (buriye, “split reed, marsh reed; reed mat”) is expected from a source word ending -ītā in the emphatic state. Vollers