Armenian edit

Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian ասուպ (asup), found only in HHB citing Albertus Magnus,[1] several medieval Armenian translations of whom are known. Borrowed from Medieval Latin asub (meteor) attested in the writings of Albertus Magnus, which the Armenian translator simply transliterated. Asub, assub is a Latinized form of Arabic أَشْهُب (ʔašhub), plural of شِهَاب (šihāb, meteor).

Note also Middle Armenian ասպ (asp, comet) in Mxitʻar Ayrivanecʻi.[2]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ասուպ (asup)

  1. meteor, shooting star

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References edit

  1. ^ Anonymous disciples of Mxitʻar Sebastacʻi (1769) “ասուպ”, in Baṙgirkʻ Haykazean lezui. Mnacʻordkʻ grabaṙ baṙicʻ haykazean lezui [Dictionary of the Armenian Language. The Remainder of Old Armenian Words]‎[1] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 62b
  2. ^ Ġazaryan, Ṙ. S., Avetisyan, H. M. (2009) “ասպ”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 79b

Further reading edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “ասուպ”, 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 270a
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836) “ասուպ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 315a
  • Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (2000) “ասուպ”, in Martiros Minassian, editor, Baṙagirkʻ storin hayerēni i matenagrutʻeancʻ ŽA–ŽĒ darucʻ [Dictionary of Middle Armenian Based on the Literature of 11–17th Centuries]‎[2], edited from the author's unfinished manuscript written 1884–1915, Geneva: Martiros Minassian, pages 71–72
  • J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “ասուպ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, pages 77–78
  • J̌axǰaxean, Manuēl (1804) “asub”, in Baṙaran yitalakan lezuē i hay ew i tačik barbaṙ [Dizionario Italiano-Armeno-Turco], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 77b
  • West, Andrew F. (1891) “Lexicographical Gleanings from the Philobiblon of Richard de Bury”, in Transactions of the American Philological Association, volume 22, page 100