սան

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

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From Old Armenian սան (san).

սան • (san)

1. nursling
2. pupil; alumnus
3. godchild
4. adopted child, foster child

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian սան (san).

սան • (san)

1. kettle, cauldron

• սանակալ (sanakal)

Zero-grade of the root սուն- (sun-, “feeding, fostering”).

սան • (san)

1. nursling; foster child
2. pupil, scholar
3. godchild

• Armenian: սան (san)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “սան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, pages 170–171
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “սան”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “սան”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy

From Urartian 𒃻𒉌 (ša₂-ni /⁠šani⁠/, “kettle”), from Akkadian 𒊺𒉡 (šen-nu /⁠šannu(m), šennu(m)⁠/, “metal kettle or cauldron”), itself a loanword from Sumerian 𒍏𒊿 (^URUDUšen /⁠šen⁠/, “a copper vessel”).^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

սան • (san)

1. kettle, cauldron

• Armenian: սան (san)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “սան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 170b
• Arutjunjan, N. V. (2001) M. L. Xačikjan, editor, Корпус урартских клинообразных надписей [Corpus of Urartian Cuneiform Inscriptions]‎ (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, →ISBN, page 462b
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “սան”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Greppin, John A. C. (1991) “Some effects of the Hurro-Urartian people and their languages upon the earliest Armenians”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society‎, volume 111, number 4, with additional notes by I. M. Diakonoff, page 726b
• Greppin, John A. C. (2010) “Urartian Sibilants in Armenian”, in Bulletin of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences‎, volume 4, number 1, pages 179–182
• 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 957
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “սան”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy