Today I learned a new word, אֲחַשְׁדַּרְפַן (achashdarpan), which not a super inaccurate transliteration for 𐎧𐏁𐏂𐎱𐎠𐎺𐎠 (xšaçapāvā). Certainly no worse than than σατράπης (satrápēs).
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I felt compelled to look this up... with Jastrow... and it appears in Daniel 3:2 but not in the Talmud (except when citing Daniel 3:2) which is kinda surprising? I wonder if there's another word for it that the Gemara prefers
not super surprising -- it also appears in Esther, but by the time of the Talmud, the term was no longer current; the Parthian word for satrap was šahrab, and the Middle Persian title used in the Sasanian period was šasab. probably ppl knew "oh, that's an old title, no need to remark on it"
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