բզրկատուն

Middle Armenian

Alternative forms

• բզրկտուն (bzrktun), բզրղատուն (bzrġatun), պզրկատուն (pzrkatun), պզրկատունայ (pzrkatunay), պզրղաթուն (pzrġatʻun), պզրղաթունէ (pzrġatʻunē), պզրղայտուն (pzrġaytun), պզրղատուն (pzrġatun), պզրղատունայ (pzrġatunay), պզրղատունէ (pzrġatunē)

Etymology

From Arabic بَزَرْقَطُونَا (bazarqaṭūnā). Tʻargmanutʻiwn dełocʻ has the manuscript variant բզրուկ (bzruk), which has been treated as a separate formation from Arabic بِزْر (bizr, “seed”) and the suffix -ուկ (-uk), however this form is probably spurious; notwithstanding, բզրուկ (bzruk) has been learnedly adopted in the modern language as the designation for Arenaria.

Noun

բզրկատուն • (bzrkatun)

1. fleawort, psyllium, Plantago psyllium (plant and seeds)

   Synonyms: ասպաղուլ (aspaġul), ասպաղօլ (aspaġōl)

   • 6th–12th? centuries, Baṙkʿ Gałianosi [The Greek–Armenian Dictionary to Galen] :

     ալ սփիոշ (var. ալափիոլ, ալափիւղ, ալփսիոչ) = բզրկատուն (var. բզրկտուն, փզրկտուն)

     al spʻioš (var. alapʻiol, alapʻiwł, alpʻsiočʻ) = bzrkatun (var. bzrktun, pʻzrktun)

     أَسْفِيُوس (ʔasfiyūs) [اسپیوش (espayôš), اسفیوش (esfayuš)] = fleawort

   • 9th or 10th century, with changes and additions in later centuries, Tʿargmanutʿiwn dełocʿ zor əntrel en imastasērkʿn ew kargeal yayl lezuacʿ [A Medieval Arabic–Armenian Botanical Dictionary] :

     ասփոշի (var. ասփսիշ) = վայրի բզըրկտուն (var. բզրուկ, բղրուկ)

     aspʻoši (var. aspʻsiš) = vayri bzərktun (var. bzruk, bġruk)

     أَسْفِيُوس (ʔasfiyūs) [اسپیوش (ispayôš), اسفیوش (esfayuš)] = wild fleawort

Usage notes

Has been confused with տզրուկ խոտ (tzruk xot, “Anagallis”).

Descendants

• → Armenian: բզրուկ (bzruk)

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բզրկատուն”, 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 445a
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բզրուկ”, 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 445a
• Ališan, Ġewond (1895) “բզրկատուն․ պզրկատուն”, in Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʻiwn [Armenian Botany] (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 339, page 90
• Ališan, Ġewond (1895) “բզրուկ”, in Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʻiwn [Armenian Botany] (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 340, pages 90–91
• Ališan, Ġewond (1895) “պզրկատուն․ պըզր ըլ-ղաթուն”, in Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʻiwn [Armenian Botany] (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 2540, page 529
• Greppin, John A. C. (1985) Baṙkʿ Gaɫianosi: The Greek–Armenian Dictionary to Galen‎^[1], Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, page 6
• Greppin, John A. C. (1997) A Medieval Arabic–Armenian Botanical Dictionary (Studien zur armenischen Geschichte; 16), a separate print of Greppin 1995, Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, § 22, page 29
• Ġazaryan, Ṙ. S., Avetisyan, H. M. (2009) “բզրղատուն”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Ġazaryan, Ṙ. S., Avetisyan, H. M. (2009) “պզրկատուն”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (1925) Kʻnnadatutʻiwn Haybusaki [A Critique of Haybusak] (Azgayin matenadaran; 109) (in Armenian), Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, pages 171–172