բլիթ

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Armenian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Old Armenian բլիթ; see it for more.

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Noun [edit]

բլիթ  (blitʿ)

  1. kind of cake
  2. (pathology) small swelling

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Old Armenian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

According to Martirosyan the basic meaning is ‘a soft lump of something; swelling; a roundish projecting part of the body’ < ‘swollen, grown’ (compare բլթակ). He derives the word from *բուլ (bul), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-l-, from the root *bʰuH- (to grow), +‎ -իթ.

Noun [edit]

բլիթ  (blitʿ)  

  1. roundish soft bread

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References [edit]

  • բլիթ in Mathias Bedrossian (1879), New Dictionary Armenian-English (Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy)
  • բլիթ in G. Awetikʿean, X. Siwrmēlean, M. Awgerean (1836–37), Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui (Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy)
  • բլիթ in Hračʿeay Ačaṙean (1926–35), Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran (Yerevan: Yerevan State University), 2nd ed., 1971–79
  • “blitʿ” in Hrach Martirosyan (2009), Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Brill Academic Publishers)