მგოსანი

Georgian edit

Etymology edit

From Old Georgian მგოსანი (mgosani); see there for more.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /mɡosani/
  • Hyphenation: მგო‧სა‧ნი

Noun edit

მგოსანი (mgosani) (plural მგოსნები)

  1. (archaic) gusan (singer, bard, etc.)
  2. (figurative) a famous poet

Inflection edit

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Derived terms edit

See also edit

References edit

  • Rayfield, Donald, editor (2006), “მგოსანი”, in A Comprehensive Georgian–English Dictionary, London: Garnett Press

Old Georgian edit

Etymology edit

From Parthian 𐫃𐫇𐫘𐫀𐫗 (gōsān). The მ- (m-) at the beginning is assumed to be the agentive prefix.

Noun edit

მგოსანი (mgosani)

  1. minstrel, gusan
    • 5th century, Bible, Matthew 9.23:
      [] იხილა მუნ მგოსნები []
      [] ixila mun mgosnebi []
      [] saw the minstrels []

Usage notes edit

In the Bible translation, corresponds to Old Armenian փողար (pʻołar) and Ancient Greek αὐλητής (aulētḗs).

Synonyms edit

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References edit

  • Abulaʒe, Ilia (2014) “მგოსანი”, in Ʒvelkartuli-ʒvelsomxuri doḳumenṭirebuli leksiḳoni [Old Georgian – Old Armenian Documentary Dictionary], Tbilisi: National Centre of Manuscripts, →ISBN, page 408a
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “գուսան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 598a
  • 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
  • Bailey, H. W. (1934) “Iranica (II)”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society[2], number 3, page 514
  • Rapp, Stephen H. (2014) The Sasanian World through Georgian Eyes: Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian Literature, Ashgate Publishing, pages 197–198
  • Šaniʒe, Aḳaḳi (1980) Kartuli enis gramaṭiḳis sapuʒvlebi [Basics of Georgian Grammar] (Txzulebani tormeṭ ṭomad; 3) (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University Press, § 163, page 125
  • Stackelberg, R. von (1894) “Lexicalisches aus ‘Wīs ō Rāmīn’”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft[3] (in German), volume 48, pages 490–497