Armenian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Old Armenian վիպասան (vipasan).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

վիպասան (vipasan)

  1. novelist
  2. storyteller, bard, composer or reciter of stories or epics (especially in ancient and medieval Armenia)

Declension edit

Old Armenian edit

Etymology edit

Usually considered an inner-Armenian formation as վէպ (vēp) +‎ ասեմ (asem) +‎ -ան (-an), but Asatryan argues for a possibility of borrowing from Middle Iranian *vēp(a)sān, from Old Iranian *waipa-sāhana-; for the first part see վէպ (vēp), for the second գովասան (govasan) and 𐫃𐫇𐫘𐫀𐫗 (gwsʾn).

Noun edit

վիպասան (vipasan)

  1. storyteller, narrator of ancient stories, vipasan
  2. historian

Declension edit

Adjective edit

վիպասան (vipasan)

  1. of or pertaining to վիպասան (vipasan)

Declension edit

Descendants edit

  • Armenian: վիպասան (vipasan)

References edit

  • Petrosean, Matatʿeay (1879) “վիպասան”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʿean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “վիպասան”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979) “վէպ”, 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 336a
  • Асатрян, Г. С. (2013) “Парфянское gōsān [Parthian gōsān]”, in С. Р. Тохтасьев, П. Б. Лурье, editors, Commentationes Iranicae. Сборник статей к 90-летию Владимира Ароновича Лившица[1] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Nestor-Istoriya, →ISBN, page 104 of 102–105