Armenian edit

 
խնձոր

Etymology edit

From Old Armenian խնձոր (xnjor).

Pronunciation edit

  • (file)

Noun edit

խնձոր (xnjor)

  1. apple

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Old Armenian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Hurrian 𒄭𒂗𒍪𒊒 (ḫe-en-zu-ru /⁠ḫenzūru, ḫinzur(i)⁠/)[1] (possibly to be transcribed ḫnzor(i)), or its unattested Urartian cognate. Akkadian 𒄭𒂗𒍪𒊒 (/⁠ḫinzūru⁠/), Aramaic חֲזוּרָא (ḥăzzūrā), Classical Syriac ܚܙܘܪܐ (ḥazzūrā) and possibly Sumerian 𒄑𒄩𒋗𒌫 (GIŠḫa-šu-ur2 /⁠ḫašḫur⁠/) are borrowed from the same source.

Noun edit

խնձոր (xnjor)

  1. apple (fruit)
    • 5th century, Pʿawstos Buzand, Hayoc Patmutʿiwnʿ [History of the Armenians] V.7:[2]
      Եւ ի ժամ աղանդեր մատուցանելոյ՝ եդին առաջի նորա միրգ, խնձոր եւ վարունգ եւ ամիճ, զի կերիցէ․
      Ew i žam ałander matucʿaneloy, edin aṙaǰi nora mirg, xnjor ew varung ew amič, zi kericʿē;
      • Translation by Nina G. Garsoïan
        And at the time for the presentation of dessert, they placed fruit before [Aršak]—apples and cucumbers and amič, that he might eat.
  2. apple tree
  3. (figurative) the round part of the dome under the cross

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Descendants edit

  • Armenian: խնձոր (xnjor)
  • Middle Armenian: խնծոր (xncor)

References edit

  1. ^ Kapancjan, G. A. (1951), “Хурритские слова армянского языка [The Hurrian words of Armenian]”, in Archív Orientalni[1] (in Russian), volume 19, issue 3–4, page 588 of 579–605 = Kapancjan, G. A. (1951), “Хурритские слова армянского языка [The Hurrian words of Armenian]”, in HSSṘ GA Teġekagir hasarakakan gitutʿyunneri [Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR: Social Sciences]‎[2] (in Russian), issue 5, pages 33–34
  2. ^ Garsoïan, Nina G. (1989) The Epic Histories Attributed to P‘awstos Buzand (Buzandaran Patmut‘iwnk‘)[3], Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, page 199

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