միրգ

Inherited from Old Armenian միրգ (mirg).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /miɾkʰ/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /miɾk/,

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միրգ • (mirg)

1. fruit

   Synonyms: պտուղ (ptuġ), բար (bar)

An Iranian borrowing; compare Parthian 𐫖𐫏𐫃𐫅 (mygd /⁠miγδ⁠/), 𐫖𐫏𐫃𐫅𐫃 (mygdg /⁠miγδag⁠/, “fruit”), Sogdian (mγδʾk, “fruit”).

միրգ • (mirg)

1. fruit

   Synonym: պտուղ (ptuł)

   • 5th century, Pʻawstos Buzand, Hayoc Patmutʻiwnʻ V.7:^[1]

     Եւ ի ժամ աղանդեր մատուցանելոյ՝ եդին առաջի նորա միրգ, խնձոր եւ վարունգ եւ ամիճ, զի կերիցէ․

     Ew i žam ałander matucʻaneloy, edin aṙaǰi nora mirg, xnjor ew varung ew amič, zi kericʻē;

     • Translation by Nina G. Garsoïan

       And at the time for the presentation of dessert, they placed fruit before —apples and cucumbers and amič, that he might eat.

• Armenian: միրգ (mirg)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “միրգ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (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) “միրգ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Bailey, H. W. (1956) “Armeno-Indoiranica”, in Transactions of the Philological Society‎, volume 55, number 1, pages 117–118
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “միրգ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy