Armenian edit

Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian թեփամորթ (tʻepʻamortʻ).

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

թեփամորթ (tʻepʻamortʻ)

  1. having scaly skin

Declension edit

Noun edit

թեփամորթ (tʻepʻamortʻ) (rare)

  1. pangolin
    Synonyms: պանգոլին (pangolin), թեփամողես (tʻepʻamoġes)

Declension edit

References edit

  • Mēnēvišean, Gabriēl (1897) Patkerazard bnakan patmutʻiwn, A. Kendanabanutʻiwn [Illustrated Natural History: 1. Zoology] (in Armenian), Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 97

Old Armenian edit

Etymology edit

թեփ (tʻepʻ) +‎ -ա- (-a-) +‎ մորթ (mortʻ)

Adjective edit

թեփամորթ (tʻepʻamortʻ)

  1. having scaly skin
    • 5th century, Basil of Caesarea, Yałags Vecʻawreay ararčʻutʻean [Homiliae in Hexaemeron] Homily VII:[1][2]
      Դարձեալ և այլք, որ ձուս արկանեն, և բազում ազգք ամենայն ձկանց, որ ունին պէսպէս կերպարանս՝ կէսքն թեփամորթք և կէսքն լերկամորթք, կէսքն խայտաբղէտք, և կէսքն միատարրք, և կէսքն թևաւորք, և կէսքն անթևք։
      Darjeal ew aylkʻ, or jus arkanen, ew bazum azgkʻ amenayn jkancʻ, or unin pēspēs kerparans, kēskʻn tʻepʻamortʻkʻ ew kēskʻn lerkamortʻkʻ, kēskʻn xaytabłētkʻ, ew kēskʻn miatarrkʻ, ew kēskʻn tʻewaworkʻ, ew kēskʻn antʻewkʻ.
      • Translation by Robert W. Thomson
        Furthermore others which lay eggs, and many kinds of all fishes that have various forms — some with scaly skin, some with hairless skin, some dappled, some homogeneous, some with fins, and some without fins.

Descendants edit

  • Armenian: թեփամորթ (tʻepʻamortʻ) (learned)

References edit

  1. ^ Barseġ Kesaracʻi (1984) Kim Muradyan, editor, Yałags Vecʻawreay ararčʻutʻean [Homiliae in Hexaemeron]‎[1], Yerevan: Academy Press, page 220
  2. ^ Thomson, Robert W. (2012) Saint Basil of Caesarea and Armenian Cosmology: A Study of the Armenian Version of Saint Basil's Hexaemeron and its Influence on Medieval Armenian Views about the Cosmos (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium; 646. Subsidia; 130), Leuven: Peeters, pages 186–187

Further reading edit

  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “թեփամորթ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “թեփամորթ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy