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Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2001–2012), “փուշ”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Hayastan
Old Armenian
Etymology
Related to Northern Kurdishpûş(“hay, dry grass; dry leaves; unmowed grass that grows in a meadow”), Central Kurdishپووش(pûş, “withered grass, hay”), Talyshпүш(püš, “straw; hull, husk; sweepings”), Kermanicpūš(“powder of medicinal plants for a circumcision wound”), Persianپوش(puš), mostly پوشال(pušâl, “chaff, excelsior, packing, padding, sawdust, splint, splinter, straw”).
5th century, with changes and additions in later centuries, Baroyaxōs Earliest recension (TR).17.1–2:
Է զեռուն ինչ որ կոչի ոզնի՝ գնդաձեւ կերպարանաւք, եւ ողն նորա վառեալ է ամենայն փշովք։ Եւ փուշն նմանէ ծովային ոզնոցն։
Ē zeṙun inčʻ or kočʻi ozni, gndajew kerparanawkʻ, ew ołn nora vaṙeal ē amenayn pʻšovkʻ. Ew pʻušn nmanē covayin oznocʻn.
Translation by Gohar Muradyan
There is a creeping animal called hedgehog, with a spherical shape, and its back is thoroughly armed with quills. And its quills look like those of the sea-urchin.
^ Asatrian, Garnik, Borjian, Habib (2005) “Talish and the Talishis (The State of Research)”, in Iran and the Caucasus, volume 9, number 1, page 53 of 43–72
^ Asatrian, Garnik (2009) “Prolegomena to the Study of the Kurds”, in Iran and the Caucasus, volume 13, number 1, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 42
^ Asatrian, Garnik (2011) A Comparative Vocabulary of Central Iranian Dialects (in Persian), Tehran: Safir Ardehal Publications, page 335
^ Cabolov, R. L. (2010) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 82–83
^ Muradyan, Gohar (2005) Physiologus: The Greek and Armenian Versions with a Study of Translation Technique (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 6), Leuven – Paris – Dudley: Peeters, pages 114–115, 151
Further reading
Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “փուշ”, 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 524–525, unknown origin
Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “փուշ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
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 26, tentatively accepting Petersson's etymology
Petersson, Herbert (1926) “Armenische Etymologien”, in Indogermanische Forschungen (in German), volume 43, number 1, page 74 of 69–79, deriving from Proto-Indo-European *(s)puḱwo-, from *pewḱ-(“pine”), whence Ancient Greek πεύκη(peúkē), Lithuanian pušìs(“pine”)
Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “փուշ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
