բուրգն

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Old Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Belongs to the same family of words as Urartian 𒁓𒂵𒈾 (bur-ga-na /⁠burgana⁠/, pillar, column; altar, base, or built-up foundation), Classical Syriac ܒܘܪܓܐ (būrgā), Arabic بُرْج (burj), Ancient Greek πύργος (púrgos), Latin burgus, Proto-Germanic *burgz.[1][2][3][4][5] The immediate source for the Armenian is uncertain. According to Martirosyan “we may be dealing with a ‘Wanderwort’ ultimately of IE origin; the Armenian, Greek, and Near Eastern forms may reflect an IE centum form (perhaps back loans from indigenous Mediterranean and/or European languages)”.[6]

Noun[edit]

բուրգն (burgn)

  1. tower or similar tall building
    Synonym: աշտարակ (aštarak)
  2. pyramid
    Synonym: պիւրամիդ (piwramid)
  3. dice-box (a box in which dice are shaken and thrown onto the game-table; called so because of its shape)

Declension[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Armenian: բուրգ (burg)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, pages 392–393
  2. ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “բուրգն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  3. ^ Diakonoff, Igor M. (1985), “Hurro-Urartian Borrowings in Old Armenian”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society[1], volume 105, issue 4, pages 602–603
  4. ^ 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, pages 950–951
  5. ^ J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010), “բուրգն”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 140b
  6. ^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 246