ամպաճ

Middle Armenian

Alternative forms

• անպաճ (anpač), անապաճ (anapač), անապ (anap), անպ (anp)

Etymology

From Arabic أَنْبَج (ʔanbaj), عَنْبَة (ʕanba).

Noun

ամպաճ • (ampač)

1. mango

Usage notes

Often misidentified with the eggplant.

Further reading

More information

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1926) “ամպաճ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Armenian), volume I, a collotype facsimile of the manuscript, Yerevan: University Press, pages 235–236
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1935) “ամպաճ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary]‎^[2] (in Armenian), volume VII, Yerevan: State Press (PetHrat), page 83
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “ամպաճ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 163ab
• Awgerean, Mkrtičʻ, Čēlalean, Grigor (1865) “ամպաճ”, in Aṙjeṙn baṙaran haykaznean lezui [Pocket Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 30b
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “ամպաճ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 47a
• Ġazaryan, Ṙ. S., Avetisyan, H. M. (2009) “անապ”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 46a
• Ġazaryan, Ṙ. S., Avetisyan, H. M. (2009) “ամվաճ”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 40, incorrectly listing as a variant form of ամվաճ (amvač, “horsetail”), apparently relying on Muradyan
• Malakʻ-Mohamadi, M. (2015) “Y. Karsti “Miǰin hayereni baṙaran”-ə hay-iranakan lezvakan usumnasirutʻyan skzbnaġbyur [The manuscript of J. Karst’s "Wörterbuch des Mittelarmenischen" as a primary source of Armenian-Iranian linguistic researches]”, in Lezu ew lezvabanutʻyun [Language and linguistics]‎^[3] (in Armenian), volume 13, numbers 1–2, Yerevan: Academy Press, page 31 of 23–34
• Muradyan, M. H. (1972) “Baṙagitutʻyun [Lexicology]”, in Ē. B. Aġayan, editor, Aknarkner miǰin grakan hayereni patmutʻyan A [Essays on the History of the Middle Armenian Literary Language I], Yerevan: Academy Press, page 259a of 168–296, incorrectly listing together with ամվաճ (amvač, “horsetail”)