ծիրան

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Armenian

ծիրան

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Armenian ծիրան (ciran). For the development of the sense “vulva” compare մամուխ (mamux).

Pronunciation

Noun

ծիրան (ciran)

  1. apricot (fruit)
    ծիրանի ծառcirani caṙapricot tree
  2. apricot-tree
  3. (dialectal) vulva

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading


Old Armenian

Etymology

The origin in uncertain.

According to Ačaṙean, borrowed from an unidentified Hurro-Urartian source, together with Georgian ჭერამი (č̣erami) and Abkhaz а-ҷара́м (a-čʼarám, apricot).[1]

Olsen derives from an Iranian descendant of Proto-Iranian *jr̥Hanyam (gold), referring to the fruit's colour. Note also ծիրանի (cirani, purple), which is either formed within Armenian from ծիրան (ciran, apricot) or borrowed independently from the same source. The borrowing would have to be very old for the Armenian consonant shift *dzծ (c) to operate, as perhaps in արծաթ (arcatʻ).[2] The connection with the Indo-Iranian "gold" word was suggested already by Müller.[3]

J̌ahukyan compares with Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂- (to grow old, mature), whence Old Armenian ծեր (cer, old), noting especially the derived term *ǵr̥h₂nóm (grain, literally matured, grown old).[4] For the association of apricots with ripening compare the ultimate derivation of apricot from Latin praecox (ripe before its time, premature).[4]

Compare also dialectal Central Kurdish شْڵانە (şillane), شێڵانە (şêllane), Gurani شێڵانێ (šɛłānɛ) and Alviri-Vidari شیلان (šilān, apricot).

Noun

ծիրան (ciran)

  1. apricot (fruit)
    ծիրանի ծառcirani caṙapricot-tree
  2. apricot-tree

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “ծիրան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, pages 459–460
  2. ^ 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 450
  3. ^ Müller, Friedrich (1877) “Armeniaca V”, in Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Classe (in German), volume 88, number 1, page 14
  4. 4.0 4.1 J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “ծիրան”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, pages 363–364

Further reading

  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “ծիրան”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ծիրան”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy