արտևան

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Armenian edit

Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian արտեւան (artewan). Doublet of թըրփան (tʿərpʿan).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

արտևան (artewan)

  1. (dated) eyelash
  2. (dated, figuratively, poetic) top, summit

Declension edit

References edit

  • Aġayan, Ēduard (1976), “արտևան”, in Ardi hayereni bacʿatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Hayastan

Old Armenian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *drep-aneh₂ (sickle), by a popular and imaginative sense development due to the arched shape of the eyebrows. A close cognate of Ancient Greek δρεπάνη (drepánē).[1]

The sense “top, summit” is a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ὀφρύς (ophrús, eyebrow; brow of a hill).

Noun edit

արտևան (artewan)

  1. eyelash (single) or eyebrow
  2. (figuratively) top, summit, the highest part of a mountain

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Armenian: արտեւան (artewan)

References edit

  1. ^ Lamberterie, Charles de (2013), “Grec, phrygien, arménien : des anciens aux modernes”, in Journal des Savants (in French), issue 1, page 22 of 3–69

Further reading edit