See also: Դոն

Armenian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle Armenian դոն (don).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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դոն (don)

  1. (dialectal) kind of longish bread

Declension

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Derived terms

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References

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  • Amatuni, Sahak (1912) “դօն”, in Hayocʻ baṙ u ban [Armenian Words and Idioms] (in Armenian), Vagharshapat: Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin
  • Malxaseancʻ, Stepʻan (1944–1945) “դօն”, in Hayerēn bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: State Publishing House

Middle Armenian

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Etymology

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Uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰoHnéh₂, but a *դուն (*dun) was expected from it. Alternatively, somehow connected with Hittite [script needed] (dūni-), [script needed] (tunik, kind of pastry).

Noun

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դոն (don)

  1. kind of bread
    • 14th century, Grigor Tatʻewacʻi, Meknutʻiwn Yohannu Awetaranin [Commentary on the Gospel of John] :[1]
      Վասն դոնի
      Դարձեալ գիտելի է, որ ի վանորայս եփեն զհացն և կոչեն «դոն», այսինքն՝ դուն նուազ և փոքր ի ձև ձկան, և բեկել նկանակացն նմանեցուցեալ։
      Vasn doni
      Darjeal giteli ē, or i vanorays epʻen zhacʻn ew kočʻen “don”, aysinkʻn, dun nuaz ew pʻokʻr i jew jkan, ew bekel nkanakacʻn nmanecʻucʻeal.
  2. (transferred sense) an architectural ornament/detail, probably architrave

Descendants

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  • Armenian: դոն (don)

References

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  1. ^ Grigor Tatʻewacʻi (2005) Ġukas Zakʻaryan, editor, Meknutʻiwn Yohannu Awetaranin [Commentary on the Gospel of John] (Nor Ktakarani grkʻeri meknutʻyunner; 12)‎[1], Vagharshapat: Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, page 264

Further reading

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  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “դոն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Ġazaryan, Ṙ. S., Avetisyan, H. M. (2009) “դոն”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Hovhannisyan, L. Š. (2010) “դոն”, in Grabari baṙaran. Nor haykazyan baṙaranum čʻvkayvac baṙer [Dictionary of Old Armenian. Words Unattested in the New Haykazyan Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Edit Print, page 98
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 241
  • Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (2000) “դոն”, 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
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “դոն”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate[3], PhD dissertation, Leiden University, page 16