բանջար

From Old Armenian բանջար (banǰar).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /bɑnˈd͡ʒɑɾ/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /pɑnˈt͡ʃɑɾ/,

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բանջար • (banǰar)

1. edible greens, vegetable
2. (dialectal) the name of various plants

• → Azerbaijani: pencər
• → Northern Kurdish: pincar, pencar
• → Ottoman Turkish: پانجار (pancar) (see there for further descendants)
• → Zazaki: pencar

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բանջար”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 409ab

The origin is unknown.

Ačaṙean derives the related terms in Georgian, Turkish and Kurdish from Armenian.

բանջար • (banǰar)

1. vegetable, greens, herb
2. (post-Classical) beet

• Armenian: բանջար (banǰar) (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Georgian: ბანჯარი (banǯari)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բանջար”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 409ab
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836) “բանջար”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 437b
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “բանջար”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, pages 117–118
• 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 935
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “բանջար”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 91b
• Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate‎, PhD dissertation, Leiden University, page 86