գոս

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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)

  1. 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)

  1. 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

  • Armenian: գոս (gos)

References

  1. ^ Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 264
  2. ^ 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