Armenian edit

 
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Etymology edit

From Old Armenian փուշ (pʻuš). For the sense "hangnail" compare Northern Kurdish pîj.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

փուշ (pʻuš)

  1. thorn; prickle
  2. fishbone
  3. bur; thornbush
  4. (dialectal) hangnail
  5. name for one of the khazes in Hampartsoum Limondjian's notation

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2001–2012), “փուշ”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Hayastan

Old Armenian edit

Etymology edit

Related to Northern Kurdish pûş (hay, dry grass; dry leaves; unmowed grass that grows in a meadow), Central Kurdish پووش (pûş, withered grass, hay), Talysh пүш (püš, straw; hull, husk; sweepings), Kermanic pūš (powder of medicinal plants for a circumcision wound), Persian پوش (puš), mostly پوشال (pušâl, chaff, excelsior, packing, padding, sawdust, splint, splinter, straw).[1][2][3][4]

The ultimate origin is uncertain.

Noun edit

փուշ (pʻuš)

  1. thorn, spine, prickle, quill
    • 5th century, with changes and additions in later centuries, Baroyaxōs [Physiologus] Earliest recension (TR).17.1–2:[5]
      Է զեռուն ինչ որ կոչի ոզնի՝ գնդաձեւ կերպարանաւք, եւ ողն նորա վառեալ է ամենայն փշովք։ Եւ փուշն նմանէ ծովային ոզնոցն։
      Ē zeṙun inčʻ or kočʻi ozni, gndajew kerparanawkʻ, ew ołn nora vaṙeal ē amenayn pʻšovkʻ. Ew pʻušn nmanē covayin oznocʻn.
      • Translation by Gohar Muradyan
        There is a creeping animal called hedgehog, with a spherical shape, and its back is thoroughly armed with quills. And its quills look like those of the sea-urchin.
  2. thistle
  3. (music) a kind of khaz
  4. a kind of wound

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Armenian: փուշ (pʻuš)

References edit

  1. ^ Asatrian, Garnik, Borjian, Habib (2005) “Talish and the Talishis (The State of Research)”, in Iran and the Caucasus[1], volume 9, number 1, page 53 of 43–72
  2. ^ Asatrian, Garnik (2009) “Prolegomena to the Study of the Kurds”, in Iran and the Caucasus, volume 13, number 1, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 42
  3. ^ Asatrian, Garnik (2011) A Comparative Vocabulary of Central Iranian Dialects[2] (in Persian), Tehran: Safir Ardehal Publications, page 335
  4. ^ Cabolov, R. L. (2010) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 82–83
  5. ^ Muradyan, Gohar (2005) Physiologus: The Greek and Armenian Versions with a Study of Translation Technique (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 6)‎[3], Leuven – Paris – Dudley: Peeters, pages 114–115, 151

Further reading edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “փուշ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, pages 524–525, unknown origin
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “փուշ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “փուշ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 768b, unknown origin
  • Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 26, tentatively accepting Petersson's etymology
  • Petersson, Herbert (1926) “Armenische Etymologien”, in Indogermanische Forschungen[4] (in German), volume 43, number 1, page 74 of 69–79, deriving from Proto-Indo-European *(s)puḱwo-, from *pewḱ- (pine), whence Ancient Greek πεύκη (peúkē), Lithuanian pušìs (pine)
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “փուշ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy