Old World Usage
This usage was shared by many of the countries east of Greece, from the Mediterranean to India:
- Egyptians used the word j-w-n(-n)-’
- Assyrians used the word Iawanu
- Persians used the word Yauna or Yavanu
- Indians - used the word Yavana in Mahabharata and other historic texts.
- Sri Lankans - used the word Yona in Mahawamsa and other historic texts.
- In Ancient Hebrew writings the word was Yāvān (and still is, in modern Israeli Hebrew - יוון)
- In Arabic, Turkish, Persian and Urdu it is Yunan
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