կերպ

From Old Armenian կերպ (kerp).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /keɾp/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /ɡeɾb/,

կերպ • (kerp)

1. method, way, mode, manner

   այս կերպ ոչինչ չի ստացվի ― ays kerp očʻinčʻ čʻi stacʻvi ― we can do nothing this way

2. shape, form; appearance
3. (grammar) aspect of the verb

Also functions as an adjective-forming suffix with the meaning -like.

Borrowed from Middle Iranian; compare Middle Persian klp (kirb, “body, form”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *krep-. Doublet of որովայն (orovayn).

կերպ • (kerp)

1. form, figure, shape, cut, fashion, make

   կերպս ի կերպս ― kerps i kerps ― in many shapes or forms; in many ways, diverse

   կերպս ի կերպս լինել ― kerps i kerps linel ― to assume a borrowed shape or appearance, to be disguised, dissembled or concealed

   ի կերպս կերպս առնել ― i kerps kerps aṙnel ― to transform into various shapes

   ի կերպս ահագինս ― i kerps ahagins ― in the most hideous shapes

2. face, person; aspect, look, appearance, air, deportment
3. kind, sort, species

• Armenian: կերպ (kerp)
• → Old Georgian: კერპი (ḳerṗi)
  • Georgian: კერპი (ḳerṗi)

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