Old Armenian edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Persian wʾnytn' (wānīdan, to conquer, usurp, destroy), from the same Proto-Indo-European source as գուն (gun).

Verb edit

վանեմ (vanem)

  1. (transitive) to drive out, to expel, to thrust or push back or aside, to chase, to drive away, to pursue
  2. (transitive) to repel, to beat off or back, to attack, to defeat, to rout, to conquer

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Armenian: վանել (vanel)

References edit

  • Petrosean, Matatʿeay (1879) “վանեմ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʿean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “վանեմ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979) “վան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 229