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Armenian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Old Armenian բագին (bagin).
Pronunciation
Noun
բագին • (bagin)
- altar (pagan)
- pagan shrine, pagan temple
- Synonym: մեհյան (mehyan)
Declension
Old Armenian
Etymology
Together with Old Georgian ბაგინი (bagini) borrowed from Iranian, ultimately from Proto-Iranian *bagáh (“god”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰagás.
Noun
բագին • (bagin)
- altar (pagan or Christian)
5th century, with changes and additions in later centuries,
Baroyaxōs Earliest recension (
TR).10.4–5:
[1]- Եւ քուրմ իբրեւ իմանայ, մտանէ լնու զբագինն որթափայտիւ․ մտանէ հաւն յարեգ քաղաք լի խնգովք եւ ելանէ ի բագինն, իւրովի լուցանէ զկրակն եւ անձամբ զանձն այրէ։
- Ew kʻurm ibrew imanay, mtanē lnu zbaginn ortʻapʻaytiw; mtanē hawn yareg kʻałakʻ li xngovkʻ ew elanē i baginn, iwrovi lucʻanē zkrakn ew anjamb zanjn ayrē.
- Translation by Gohar Muradyan
- And the priest being informed goes in and fills the altar with vine wood. The bird enters Heliopolis, filled with incense, mounts the altar, kindles the fire with itself and burns itself.
- pagan shrine, pagan temple
- Synonym: մեհեան (mehean)
- (rare) idol, statue
Declension
i-a-type
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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բագին (bagin)
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բագինք (baginkʻ)
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| genitive
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բագնի (bagni)
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բագնաց (bagnacʻ)
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| dative
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բագնի (bagni)
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բագնաց (bagnacʻ)
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| accusative
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բագին (bagin)
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բագինս (bagins)
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| ablative
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բագնէ (bagnē)
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բագնաց (bagnacʻ)
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| instrumental
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բագնաւ (bagnaw)
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բագնաւք = բագնօք (bagnawkʻ = bagnōkʻ)
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| locative
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բագնի (bagni)
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բագինս (bagins)
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| also declined as բագնեաց (bagneacʻ), բագնեաւ (bagneaw), բագնեօք (bagneōkʻ), which presuppose a nominative *բագնի (*bagni)
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Derived terms
Descendants
- → Armenian: բագին (bagin) (learned)
References
- ^ Muradyan, Gohar (2005) Physiologus: The Greek and Armenian Versions with a Study of Translation Technique (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 6), Leuven – Paris – Dudley: Peeters, pages 103, 147
Further reading
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բագ”, 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, pages 373–374
- Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “բագին”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
- Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 113
- 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 869
- Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “բագին”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy