տարի

From Old Armenian տարի (tari).

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

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• Hyphenation: տա‧րի

տարի • (tari)

1. year

   այս տարի ― ays tari ― this year

• (archaic) ամ (am)

The origin is unknown.

Ačaṙean rejects all proposals and leaves the origin open.

J̌ahukyan 1987 derives from Akkadian 𒁕𒌷 (/⁠dārītu⁠/, “a long time; perpetuity, eternity”), which is related to Egyptian tr (“time, season”) and the Semitic source of դար (dar), but in 2010 considers the connection doubtful.

Olsen remarks that the word has no accepted etymology and tentatively adduces Ancient Greek δῶρον (dôron, “hand's breadth, palm, as a measure of length”), δάριν (dárin, “span”), implying a common origin for the Armenian and Greek words with a semantic development in Armenian like the one found in English “span of time”.

տարի • (tari)

1. year

   պարականոն տարի ― parakanon tari ― embolismic year

   տարւոջէ ի տարի, տարւոյ տարւոյ, տարւոյ տարի ― tarwoǰē i tari, tarwoy tarwoy, tarwoy tari ― annually, yearly, year by year, every year

   ի տարւոջ ― i tarwoǰ ― in the year; per annum, a year

According to Ačaṙean, տարի (tari) was used for one year, ամ (am) for multiple years.

• ամ (am)

• Armenian: տարի (tari), տարիք (tarikʻ)
• →⇒ Old Georgian: ტარიგი (ṭarigi)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “տարի”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “տարի”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “տարի”, 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 385–386
• Godel, Robert (1975) An introduction to the study of classical Armenian, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, page 30
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period]‎ (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 460
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “տարի”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 724ab
• Black, Jeremy, George, Andrew, Postgate, Nicholas (2000) “dārītu(m)”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, page 57a
• 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 442