Armenian edit

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Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish بالیوس (balyos, title of any European envoy).

Noun edit

պալիոզ (palioz)

  1. (obsolete or dialectal) title of any European envoy
    • 1636, Simēon Lehacʻi, Ułegrutʻiwn [Travel Accounts] :[1][2]
      Իսկ պալիօզք եւ էլչք, որք են թագաւորաց վէքիլք, Ֆռանցու, Ինկլիզու, Վէնէտիկու եւ այլոց, Ղալաթայ են։
      Isk paliōzkʻ ew ēlčʻkʻ, orkʻ en tʻagaworacʻ vēkʻilkʻ, Fṙancʻu, Inklizu, Vēnētiku ew aylocʻ, Ġalatʻay en.
      • Translation by George A. Bournoutian
        On that day, the ambassadors and the envoys, who are the representatives of the kings of France, England, Venice, and other [European states], come to Galata.
    • 1636, Simēon Lehacʻi, Ułegrutʻiwn [Travel Accounts] :[3][4]
      Նստի անդ չորս պալիօս։
      Nsti and čʻors paliōs.
      • Translation by George A. Bournoutian
        Four ambassadors reside there.
  2. (Istanbul) rich man

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References edit

  1. ^ Akinean, H. N., editor (1936), Simēon dpri Lehacʻwoy uġegrutʻiwn, taregrutʻiwn ew yišatakarankʻ (Azgayin matenadaran; 141), Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 25
  2. ^ Bournoutian, George A. (2007) The Travel Accounts of Simēon of Poland (Armenian Studies Series; 10)‎[1], Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers, page 49
  3. ^ Akinean, H. N., editor (1936), Simēon dpri Lehacʻwoy uġegrutʻiwn, taregrutʻiwn ew yišatakarankʻ (Azgayin matenadaran; 141), Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 318
  4. ^ Bournoutian, George A. (2007) The Travel Accounts of Simēon of Poland (Armenian Studies Series; 10)‎[2], Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers, page 266

Further reading edit

  • Akinean, H. N., editor (1936), Simēon dpri Lehacʻwoy uġegrutʻiwn, taregrutʻiwn ew yišatakarankʻ (Azgayin matenadaran; 141), Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 446
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2008), “պալեոզ”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume V, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 10a
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1951) “պալյօզ”, in Ewropakan pʻoxaṙeal baṙer hayerēni mēǰ [European Loanwords in Armenian] (Azgayin matenadaran; 166) (in Armenian), published from the author's manuscript submitted in 1921, Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 131, deriving the Istanbul dialect sense from Italian balioso (strong, powerful)