Old Armenian

edit

Alternative forms

edit

Etymology

edit

From Ancient Greek ἰώβηλος (iṓbēlos) +‎ -եան (-ean).

Noun

edit

յոբելեան (yobelean)

  1. (Judaism) Jubilee (a year of rest, observed by the Israelites every 50 years)
    յոբելեան ամyobelean amyear of Jubilee
    յոբելեան փողyobelean pʻołhorn announcing the Jubilee
  2. a period of fifty years
  3. (Christianity) fifty days of Eastertide from Easter Sunday till Pentecost

Declension

edit

Descendants

edit
  • Armenian: հոբելյան (hobelyan)

References

edit
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “յոբելեան”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “յոբելեան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press