Մսըր

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Armenian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Armenian Մսըր (Msər), from Ottoman Turkish مصر (mısır).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Մսըր (Msər)

  1. (dialectal) Egypt (a country in North Africa and Western Asia)
    Synonym: Եգիպտոս (Egiptos)
  2. (obsolete) a male given name

Declension

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Further reading

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  • Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1946) “Մսըր”, in Hayocʻ anjnanunneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Personal Names of Armenians] (Erewani petakan hamalsaran. Gitakan ašxatutʻyunner; 25) (in Armenian), volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 474
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2007), “Մսըր”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume IV, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 84ab

Middle Armenian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish مصر (Mısır), from Arabic مِصْر (miṣr).

Noun

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Մսըր (Msər)

  1. Egypt (a country in North Africa and Western Asia)
  2. a male given name
    • 1468, Inscription (Khachkar in the Orbelian family cemetery in Eġegis, Vayocʻ Jor, Armenia) :[1][2]
      ԿԱՆԿ[ՆԵ]ՑԻ ԽԱՉ[Ս] Ի ՓՐԿ[ՈՒ]Թ[ԻՒՆ] ՄՍՐԻՆ ։Թ։ ՋԺԷ
      KANK[NE]CʻI XAČʻ[S] I PʻRK[U]Tʻ[IWN] MSRIN .Tʻ. J̌ŽĒ
      I set up this cross for the salvation of Msr in the year 917 [AE = 1468 CE]

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Armenian: Մսըր (Msər)

References

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  1. ^ Barxudaryan, S. G. (1967) K. G. Ġafadaryan, editor, Divan hay vimagrutʻyan. Prak III, Vayocʻ Jor, Eġegnajori ew Azizbekovi šrǰanner [Corpus Inscriptionum Armenicarum. Volume III, Vayots Dzor: Districts of Yeghegnadzor and Azizbekov] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, § 326, page 113
  2. ^ Stone, Michael E. (2019) “The Orbelian family cemetery in Ełegis, Vayoc‘ Jor, Armenia”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15), with notes by Aram Topchyan, printed also in REArm 33 (2011), Leuven: Peeters, page 358

Further reading

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  • Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1946) “Մսր”, in Hayocʻ anjnanunneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Personal Names of Armenians] (Erewani petakan hamalsaran. Gitakan ašxatutʻyunner; 25) (in Armenian), volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 474