Armenian edit

Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian դեսպակ (despak).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

դեսպակ (despak)

  1. litter, palanquin

Declension edit

Old Armenian edit

Etymology edit

A Northwestern Iranian borrowing: compare Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (byʾspk) and the Iranian borrowings — Jewish Babylonian Aramaic דִּיסְפַּק (dyspq /⁠dîspaq⁠/, mule-drawn wagon), Classical Syriac ܒܝܣܦܩܐ (byspqʾ).

Noun edit

դեսպակ (despak)

  1. litter, palanquin

Declension edit

Descendants edit

  • Armenian: դեսպակ (despak)

Further reading edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “դեսպակ”, 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 654a
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “դեսպակ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 140
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “դեսպակ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy