Armenian edit

Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian Փառանձեմ (Pʻaṙanjem).

Pronunciation edit

Proper noun edit

Փառանձեմ (Pʻaṙanjem)

  1. a female given name, Parandzem, Parantzem, Pharandsem, or Paranjem

Declension edit

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Old Armenian edit

Etymology edit

From Iranian. Compare Parthian [script needed] (ḥwrʾnzymH /⁠Xōrānzēm⁠/), Middle Persian [Inscriptional Pahlavi needed] (ḥwlncym /⁠Xōrānzēm⁠/, Khwarranzem), transliterated into Greek as Χορνανζημ (Khornanzēm). Related to Georgian ხვარანძე (xvaranʒe). The Iranian name contains the etymon of փառք (pʻaṙkʻ, glory) as the first part. The second part is disputed. Doublet of Խորանձէ (Xoranjē).

Proper noun edit

Փառանձեմ (Pʻaṙanjem)

  1. a female given name

Usage notes edit

Notably borne by a 4th century Armenian queen.

Declension edit

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Descendants edit

  • Armenian: Փառանձեմ (Pʻaṙanjem)

Further reading edit

  • Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1962) “Փառանձեմ”, in Hayocʻ anjnanunneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Personal Names of Armenians] (in Armenian), volume V, Yerevan: University Press, page 190
  • Gignoux, Philippe (1986) Noms propres sassanides en moyen-perse épigraphique [Sasanian proper names in Inscriptional Middle Persian] (Iranisches Personennamenbuch, Band II, Faszikel 2) (in French), Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, § 1018, page 165
  • Justi, Ferdinand (1895) Iranisches Namenbuch[1] (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 91a
  • Justi, Ferdinand (1895) Iranisches Namenbuch[2] (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, pages 181–182
  • Livšic, V. A. (2010) Parfjanskaja onomastika [Parthian onomastics] (in Russian), St. Petersburg: Linguistic Society of St. Petersburg, →ISBN, page 97
  • Периханян, А. Г. (1965) “Арамейская надпись из Зангезура (Некоторые вопросы среднеиранской диалектологии) [Aramaic inscription from Zangezur. Some questions of Middle Iranian dialectology]”, in Patma-banasirakan handes [Historical-Philological Journal]‎[3] (in Russian), number IV, Yerevan: Academy Press, page 112