դպիր

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian դպիր (dpir).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /dəˈpiɾ/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /təˈbiɾ/,

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դպիր • (dpir)

1. (ecclesiastical) psalm-reader
2. (historical) scribe
3. (historical) scholar, learned man

From Middle Persian 𐭣𐭯𐭩𐭥𐭥 (dpywr /⁠dibīr⁠/).

դպիր • (dpir)

1. lecturer; scholar, one brought up at a seminary; transcriber; notary; scribe, copyist
   • 5th century, Agatʻangełos, Patmutʻiwn Hayocʻ 778:^[1]

     Նախ դիպեալ ի ճանապարհի երազացոյց երազահան պաշտաման Տրի դից, դպրի գիտութեան քրմաց, անուանեալ Դիւան գրչի Որմզդի, ուսման ճարտարութեան մեհեան

     Nax dipeal i čanaparhi erazacʻoycʻ erazahan paštaman Tri dicʻ, dpri gitutʻean kʻrmacʻ, anuaneal Diwan grčʻi Ormzdi, usman čartarutʻean mehean

     • Translation by R. W. Thomson

       On the road he first came across the shrine of the god Tir, the interpreter of dreams, the scribe of pagan learning, who was called the secretary of Ormizd, a temple of learned instruction.

• → Armenian: դպիր (dpir)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “դպիր”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “դպիր”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “դպիր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press