Armenian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Persian دوربین (durbin). Some of the alternative forms are borrowed via Turkic.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

դուրբին (durbin)

  1. (dialectal) telescope, monocular, perspective glass; binoculars
    Synonym: հեռադիտակ (heṙaditak)
    • 1686, Hovhannes Ter-Davtʻyan J̌ułayecʻi, Account Book [1]:
      Իմ մին ինկլիզի դուրբին ունի
      Im min inklizi durbin uni
      I got an English telescope

Declension edit

References edit

  1. ^ Hovhannes J̌uġayecʻi (1984) Xačʻikyan L. S., Pʻapʻazyan H. D., editors, Hovhannes Ter-Davtʻyan J̌uġayecʻu hašvetumarə [The Account Book of Hovhannes Ter-Davtyan from Julfa] (Tntesakan patmutʻyan vaveragrer; 1) (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 136

Further reading edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “տիւլպիւն”, in Tʻurkʻerēni azdecʻutʻiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʻurkʻerēnē pʻoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žoġovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʻeamb Vani, Ġarabaġi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 339
  • Bläsing, Uwe (1997) “Irano-Turcica: Westiranisches Wortgut im türkeitürkischen Dialektmaterial”, in Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia[1] (in German), number 2, § 28. durde (Tunceli) ‘Fernglas’, pages 93–96
  • Villotte, Jacques (1714) “tubus”, in Dictionarium Novum Latino-Armenium [New Latin–Armenian Dictionary]‎[2], Rome: Typographia Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, page 714a