Old Armenian edit

Etymology edit

An Iranian borrowing: compare Khotanese [script needed] (para-, food), [script needed] (pāra-, cake), [script needed] (pār-, to rear, feed), Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (pyšpʾlk' /⁠pēš-pārag⁠/, appetizer), Persian پیشپاره (pêš-pâra, cake made of flour, honey, and oil or butter). Related to Old Armenian նպար (npar), նպարակ (nparak, food), also from Iranian.

Noun edit

պարէն (parēn)

  1. subsistence, food, nourishment

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Descendants edit

  • Armenian: պարեն (paren)

Further reading edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “պարէն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 61a
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “պարէն”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 230ab
  • J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period]‎[1] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 537
  • J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “նպար”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 575a
  • J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “պարէն”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 631b
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “պարէն”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy