Armenian edit

Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian բեղուն (bełun).

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

բեղուն (beġun) (superlative ամենաբեղուն)

  1. fertile

Declension edit

Old Armenian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (to blow, grow, swell) +‎ -ուն (-un). Cognate with Ancient Greek φαλλός (phallós), Old Norse boli (bull). The form բեղն (bełn) was back-formed from compounds such as բեղնաւոր (bełnawor). See also բեղմն (bełmn).

Noun edit

բեղուն (bełun)

  1. product, harvest, semen, fruit

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Armenian: բեղուն (beġun) (learned)

References edit

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “բեղուն”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “բեղուն”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “բեղմն”, 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 175