բանկն

Old Armenian

Alternative forms

• բանգն (bangn)
• բունկն (bunkn)

Etymology

Related to բան (ban). The ending may be the suffix -կն (-kn).

Noun

բանկն • (bankn)

1. myth, fairy-tale

Derived terms

• բանկնարկեմ (banknarkem)

Descendants

• Armenian: բանկլ (bankl)

References

• Petrosean, Matatʿeay (1879) “բանկն”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʿean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “բանկն”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979) “բանկն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 167