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Old Armenian
Etymology
A Southwestern Iranian borrowing. Compare Middle Persian (mʾtgdʾn' /mādayān/, “book”), Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫖𐫀𐫅𐫏𐫀𐫗 (mʾdyʾn /mādayān/, “book, writing”). Old Georgian მატიანე (maṭiane), მატიანი (maṭiani) are from the same source, according to Ačaṙean borrowed via Armenian.
Noun
մատեան • (matean)
- book; parchment, scroll, roll, register; code, manuscript
- աստուածային, աստուածաշունչ մատեանք ― astuacayin, astuacašunčʻ mateankʻ ― the Holy Scriptures, Holy Bible, Holy Writ
- մատենից դարան ― matenicʻ daran ― library
- ի մատենի հարկանել, տալ ― i mateni harkanel, tal ― to write, to set down or couch in writing, to register, to record
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References
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “մատեան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
- Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “մատեան”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
- Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004) “mʾdyʾn”, in A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols, page 224a
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “mādayān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 53
- 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 894
- Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “մատեան”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy