կուպր

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Armenian

Etymology

From Old Armenian կուպր (kupr).

Pronunciation

Noun

կուպր (kupr)

  1. tar, resin, pitch

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Descendants

  • Georgian: კუპრი (ḳuṗri)
    • Bats: კუპრ (ḳuṗr)

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “կուպր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 662a

Old Armenian

Etymology

A Semitic borrowing: compare Akkadian 𒇒𒌓𒀀 (kupru, bitumen, pitch), whence Aramaic כּוּפְרָא / ܟܘܦܪܐ (kūp̄rā, pitch, tar; asphalt) and Arabic كُفْر (kufr, pitch, tar).

Noun

կուպր (kupr)

  1. asphalt, bitumen
    • 5th century, Bible, Genesis 11.3:
      Եւ ասեն այր ցընկեր իւր․ Եկայք արկցուք աղիւս եւ թրծեսցուք զայն հրով։ Եւ եղեւ նոցա աղիւսն ի տեղի քարի, եւ կուպր ի տեղի շաղախոյ։
      Ew asen ayr cʻənker iwr; Ekaykʻ arkcʻukʻ ałiws ew tʻrcescʻukʻ zayn hrov. Ew ełew nocʻa ałiwsn i tełi kʻari, ew kupr i tełi šałaxoy.
      And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.

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Descendants

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “կուպր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, pages 661–662
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “կուպր”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 308
  • Jensen, P. (1898) Hittiter und Armenier (in German), Strassburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 214
  • Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 936
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “կուպր”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Scheftelowitz, J. (1905) “Zur altarmenischen lautgeschichte”, in Beiträge zur kunde der indogermanischen Sprachen (in German), volume 29, page 69