աւերանք
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Old Armenian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Wholly borrowed from Iranian (compare Parthian 𐭀𐭅𐭉𐭓𐭍 (ʾwyrn, “ruin, destruction”), Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (ʾwylʾn' /awērān/), Persian ویران (virân, “desolate, ruined”)) or formed in Armenian as աւերեմ (awerem) + -անք (-ankʻ).
Noun[edit]
աւերանք • (awerankʻ) pl
Declension[edit]
i-a-type
Descendants[edit]
- → Armenian: ավերանք (averankʻ)
Further reading[edit]
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “աւեր”, 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, pages 359–360
- Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “աւերանք”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
- 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 869
- Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “աւերանք”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy