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Armenian
Etymology
The origin is uncertain.
Has been compared to dialectal Armenian լովազ (lovaz, “palm, flat of the hand”), լափուկ (lapʻuk), լեփուկ (lepʻuk, “flat, polished stone for playing”), լավազ (lavaz, “very thin”), լավաշ (lavaš, “thin flat bread”), Northern Kurdish lep (“paw; whole hand, including palm and fingers; wrist, hand; blow with the paw”), Central Kurdish لەپ (lep, “palm (of hand); front, flat face (of something)”), Zazaki lep (“hand, palm”), Russian ла́па (lápa, “paw”), Proto-Germanic *lōfô (“the palm or hollow of the hand”).
Possibly, a sound-symbolic formation.
Noun
լուփ • (lupʻ)
- (dialectal) palm, flat of the hand
- Synonym: ափ (apʻ)
Further reading
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “լուփ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, pages 439–440
- Asatrian, G., Livshits, V. (1994) “Origine du système consonantique de la langue kurde”, in Acta Kurdica, volume 1, page 103 of 81–108
- Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 304–306
- Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2002), “լուփ”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume II, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 255ab