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Armenian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Middle Armenian գոս (gos), from Persian کوس (kôs). Standard Eastern Armenian is a spelling pronunciation.
Pronunciation
Noun
գոս • (gos)
- kettledrum
Declension
Further reading
- Aġayan, Ēduard (1976) “գոս”, in Ardi hayereni bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Hayastan
Middle Armenian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Persian کوس (kôs).
Not connected with գուսան (gusan), despite Bailey 1934. It should be borne in mind that Middle Armenian գ (g) represents here /kʰ/.
Noun
գոս • (gos) (nominative plural գոսեր)
- kettledrum
1145,
Nersēs Šnorhali,
Ołb Edesioy :
- Փողս եւ գոսերս գոչէին, իբրեւ յամպոցն որոտային
- Pʻoġs ew gosers gočʻēin, ibrew yampocʻn orotayin […]
- Translation by Theo van Lint
- They blew the trumpet and struck the kettle-drum, they thundered like the clouds
Descendants
References
- ^ Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 264
- ^ van Lint, Theo (1999) “Lament on Edessa by Nersēs Šnorhali”, in Krijna Ciggaar, Herman Teule, editors, East and West in the Crusader States: Context, Contacts, Confrontations II, Leuven: Peters, page 73 of 49–105
Further reading
More information
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “գոս”, 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 582ab
- Асатрян, Г. С. (2013) “Парфянское gōsān [Parthian gōsān]”, in С. Р. Тохтасьев, П. Б. Лурье, editors, Commentationes Iranicae. Сборник статей к 90-летию Владимира Ароновича Лившица (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Nestor-Istoriya, →ISBN, page 103 of 102–105
- Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “գոս”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
- Bailey, H. W. (1934) “Iranica (II)”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, number 3, page 515
- Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 64a
- Ġazaryan, Ṙ. S., Avetisyan, H. M. (2009) “գոս”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press
- Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (2000) “գոս”, in Martiros Minassian, editor, Baṙagirkʻ storin hayerēni i matenagrutʻeancʻ ŽA–ŽĒ darucʻ [Dictionary of Middle Armenian Based on the Literature of 11–17th Centuries], edited from the author's unfinished manuscript written 1884–1915, Geneva: Martiros Minassian, page 146
- Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “գոս”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy