Armenian edit

Etymology edit

From Old Armenian պատուհան (patuhan).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

պատուհան (patuhan)

  1. window
    Synonyms: լուսամուտ (lusamut), (dialectal) փանջարա (pʻanǰara), (dialectal) ակուշկա (akuška)
  2. (rare) cupboard made in a wall
    Synonym: պատրհան (patrhan)
  3. windowsill
    Synonyms: պատուհանագոգ (patuhanagog), լուսամուտագոգ (lusamutagog)
  4. (dialectal) skylight (an opening in the ceiling for letting in light)
    Synonym: երդիկ (erdik)

Declension edit

Further reading edit

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

Old Armenian edit

Etymology edit

Dialectal evidence points to an earlier form *պատուրհան (*paturhan), which is borrowed from a Middle Iranian word meaning "opening for ventilation", composed of the preverb *pati- and *frāna- (breath): compare Sogdian [script needed] (βrʾn /⁠frān⁠/), Sanskrit प्राण (prāṇa, breath).[1][2] Folk etymology explains the word as պատ (pat) + հանել (hanel), i.e. “a hole in the wall”.

Noun edit

պատուհան (patuhan)

  1. window; dormer window; skylight
    վանդակ պատուհանիvandak patuhaniblinds, Venetian blinds
    պատուհանք բացան երկնիցpatuhankʻ bacʻan erknicʻit rains pailfuls
    կարկառել ընդ պատուհաննkarkaṙel ənd patuhannto lean or look out of window
    հայել ընդ պատուհաննhayel ənd patuhannto peep or look in at the window or through the window
  2. wall cabinet, wall closet
  3. sluice, floodgate
  4. chimney
  5. (figuratively, in the plural) senses of the body

Declension edit

Descendants edit

  • Armenian: պատուհան (patuhan)
  • Georgian: პატოანი (ṗaṭoani)

References edit

  1. ^ Benveniste, Émile (1957–1958) “Mots d’emprunt iraniens en arménien”, in Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume 53, page 63
  2. ^ Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 294

Further reading edit

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “պատուհան”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “պատուհան”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “պատուհան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press