Armenian edit

Etymology 1 edit

Widespread in the dialects. The origin is uncertain. Ačaryan identifies with homonymous սինձ (sinj, hawthorn).[1] Asatrian derives from the Iranian family discussed in Persian اسفناج (esfenâj).[2] Compare especially Northern Kurdish şeng, şing (Tragopogon pratensis) from that family.[3]

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

սինձ (sinj)

  1. goatsbeard (Tragopogon)[4]
    Synonyms: քոշմորուք (kʻošmorukʻ), բամպուլուկ (bampuluk), քուշմաթ (kʻušmatʻ)
Declension edit
Descendants edit
  • Northern Kurdish: sînz (goatsbeard)

References edit

  1. ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “սինձ”, 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, pages 216–217
  2. ^ Asatrian, Garnik (2009) “Prolegomena to the Study of the Kurds”, in Iran and the Caucasus, volume 13, number 1, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 42
  3. ^ Kasımoğlu, Ahmet, Dirihî, Ehmedê (2013) Kadri Yıldırım, editor, Ferhenga Navên Nebatan a Kurdî [Dictionary of Kurdish Plant Names]‎[1], Istanbul: Mardin Artuklu Üniversitesi, →ISBN, pages 740, 753
  4. ^ Ġazaryan, Ṙ. S. (1981) “սինձ”, in Busanunneri hayeren-latineren-ṙuseren-angleren-franseren-germaneren baṙaran [Armenian–Latin–Russian–English–French–German Dictionary of Plant Names], Yerevan: University Press, § 1092, page 86a

Further reading edit

Etymology 2 edit

From Middle Armenian սինձ (sinj), սինծ (sinc, hawthorn), which Ačaṙyan identifies with Armenian սինձ (sinj, goatsbeard), Old Armenian սինձ (sinj, sticky substance), սոսինձ (sosinj, glue), and leaves the origin open.[1] Likely related to Northern Kurdish sinc (silverberry)[2] and of Iranian origin.[3]

Noun edit

սինձ (sinj)[4][1]

  1. (dialectal, Moks, New Julfa) hawthorn
    Synonym: սզնի (szni)
Descendants edit

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “սինձ”, 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, pages 216–217
  2. ^ Cabolov, R. L. (2010) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 261–262
  3. ^ Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 399a
  4. ^ Orbeli, I. A. (2002) “սինձ”, in Словарь наречия Мокса [Dictionary of Moks Dialect] (Избранные труды в двух томах; II.1)‎[2] (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, →ISBN, page 326

Further reading edit

  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 576