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Middle Armenian
Etymology
From Arabic أَلُوسَن (ʔalūsan), an Arabicized form of Ancient Greek ἄλυσσον (álusson).
Noun
ալուսան • (alusan)
- alyssum (Alyssum; according to Vardanjan, specifically Alyssum saxatile)
1478 – 1492,
Amirdovlatʻ Amasiacʻi,
Angitacʻ anpēt :
- Իշաքեղ· որ է վառվռուկն, որ է ալուսանն․ եւ ինքս յիշած է ի գրքին յառաջն ի վերայ այբին։
- Išakʻeġ· or ē vaṙvṙukn, or ē alusann; ew inkʻs yišac ē i grkʻin yaṙaǰn i veray aybin.
Synonyms
References
- Ališan, Ġewond (1895) “աալուսան”, in Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʻiwn [Armenian Botany] (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 1, page 10
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “աալուսան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 73a
- Ġazaryan, Ṙuben, Avetisyan, Henrik (2009) “ալուսան”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 19, 40
- Vardanjan, Stella (1990) Амирдовлат Амасиаци, Ненужное для неучей (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, pages 31, 563