մուրտաստան

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Old Armenian

Etymology

Formed within Armenian as մուրտ (murt) +‎ -աստան (-astan) or wholly borrowed from Middle Iranian: compare Persian موردستان (murdestân, a toponym, literally myrtle-place).[1][2][3]

Noun

մուրտաստան (murtastan)

  1. myrtle-grove
    • 5th century, Bible, Book of Judges 1.35:[4]
      Եւ սկսաւ ամուրհացին բնակել ի լերինն մուրտաստանի (var. մուրաստանի)․ ուր արջք և աղուէսք ի մուրտաստանսն (var. մուրաստանն) և ի Սաղապին։
      Ew sksaw amurhacʻin bnakel i lerinn murtastani (var. murastani); ur arǰkʻ ew ałuēskʻ i murtastansn (var. murastann) ew i Sałapin.
      And the Amorite began to dwell in the mountain of myrtle-grove, in which bears, and foxes, in myrtle-grove, and in Thalabin.

Usage notes

In the Bible renders Ancient Greek Μυρσινών (Mursinṓn). Sometimes treated as a proper noun.

Declension

References

  1. ^ Angelus à S. Joseph (1684) Gazophylacium linguae Persarum, Amsterdam, page 231
  2. ^ Tʻireakʻean, Yarutʻiwn (1914) “մուրտաստան”, in Ariahay baṙaran : Norog tesutʻeambkʻ ew yaweluacovkʻ (in Armenian), Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 276
  3. ^ 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 333
  4. ^ Zōhrapean, Yovhannēs, editor (1805), Astuacašunčʻ matean Hin ew Nor Ktakaranacʻ, volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 473

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