յոբելեան

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Old Armenian[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Ancient Greek ἰώβηλος (iṓbēlos) +‎ -եան (-ean).

Noun[edit]

յոբելեան (yobelean)

  1. (Judaism) Jubilee (a year of rest, observed by the Israelites every 50 years)
    յոբելեան ամyobelean amyear of Jubilee
    յոբելեան փողyobelean pʻołhorn announcing the Jubilee
  2. a period of fifty years
  3. (Christianity) fifty days of Eastertide from Easter Sunday till Pentecost

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Descendants[edit]

  • Armenian: հոբելյան (hobelyan)

References[edit]

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “յոբելեան”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “յոբելեան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press