հրետ

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Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

A modern literary creation based on հուր (hur, fire). The ending -ետ (-et) may be borrowed from the ending of French mousquet. For such a "suffix-borrowing" in modern coinages compare թերթոն (tʻertʻon).

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Noun[edit]

հրետ (hret)

  1. (obsolete) cannon[1][2]
    Synonyms: թնդանոթ (tʻndanotʻ), հրանոթ (hranotʻ), գնդընկեց (gndənkecʻ)
  2. (obsolete) musket[1][3]
    Synonym: մուշկետ (mušket)

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References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kʻaǰuni, Manuēl (1893) “հրետ”, in Baṙgirkʻ aruesticʻ ew gitutʻeancʻ ew gełecʻik dprutʻeancʻ. Hamaṙōt baṙgirkʻ gitutʻeancʻ ew aruesticʻ ew gełecʻik dprutʻeancʻ hayerēn-gałłieren [Dictionary of Arts and Sciences and Belles Lettres. Concise Armenian–French Dictionary of Arts and Sciences and Belles Lettres], volume III (overall work in Old Armenian and French), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 146a
  2. ^ Kʻaǰuni, Manuēl (1891) “canon”, in Baṙgirkʻ aruesticʻ ew gitutʻeancʻ ew gełecʻik dprutʻeancʻ [Dictionary of Arts and Sciences and Belles Lettres], volume I (overall work in Old Armenian and French), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 366b
  3. ^ Kʻaǰuni, Manuēl (1892) “mousquet”, in Baṙgirkʻ aruesticʻ ew gitutʻeancʻ ew gełecʻik dprutʻeancʻ [Dictionary of Arts and Sciences and Belles Lettres], volume II (overall work in Old Armenian and French), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 123a