գոս

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Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Middle Armenian գոս (gos), from Persian کوس (kôs). Standard Eastern Armenian [ɡɔs] is a spelling pronunciation.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

գոս (gos)

  1. kettledrum

Declension[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • Aġayan, Ēduard (1976) “գոս”, in Ardi hayereni bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Hayastan

Middle Armenian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Persian کوس (kôs).[1]

Not connected with գուսան (gusan), despite Bailey 1934. It should be borne in mind that Middle Armenian գ (g) represents here /kʰ/.

Noun[edit]

գոս (gos) (nominative plural գոսեր)

  1. kettledrum
    • 1145, Nersēs Šnorhali, Ołb Edesioy [Elegy on the Fall of Edessa] :[2]
      Փողս եւ գոսերս գոչէին, իբրեւ յամպոցն որոտային []
      Pʻoġs ew gosers gočʻēin, ibrew yampocʻn orotayin []
      • Translation by Theo van Lint
        They blew the trumpet and struck the kettle-drum, they thundered like the clouds []

Descendants[edit]

  • Armenian: գոս (gos)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 264
  2. ^ van Lint, Theo (1999) “Lament on Edessa by Nersēs Šnorhali”, in Krijna Ciggaar, Herman Teule, editors, East and West in the Crusader States: Context, Contacts, Confrontations II, Leuven: Peters, page 73 of 49–105

Further reading[edit]