վիպասան

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian վիպասան (vipasan).

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

վիպասան • (vipasan)

1. novelist
2. storyteller, bard, composer or reciter of stories or epics (especially in ancient and medieval Armenia)

Usually considered an inner-Armenian formation as վէպ (vēp) +‎ ասեմ (asem) +‎ -ան (-an), but Asatryan argues for a possibility of borrowing from Middle Iranian *vēp(a)sān, from Old Iranian *waipa-sāhana-; for the first part see վէպ (vēp), for the second գովասան (govasan) and 𐫃𐫇𐫘𐫀𐫗 (gwsʾn).

վիպասան • (vipasan)

1. storyteller, narrator of ancient stories, vipasan
2. historian

վիպասան • (vipasan)

1. of or pertaining to վիպասան (vipasan)

• → Armenian: վիպասան (vipasan) (learned)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “վիպասան”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “վիպասան”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “վէպ”, 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 336a
• Асатрян, Г. С. (2013) “Парфянское gōsān [Parthian gōsān]”, in С. Р. Тохтасьев, П. Б. Лурье, editors, Commentationes Iranicae. Сборник статей к 90-летию Владимира Ароновича Лившица‎ (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Nestor-Istoriya, →ISBN, page 104 of 102–105