անագ

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian անագ (anag).

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

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• Hyphenation: ա‧նագ

անագ • (anag)

1. tin

   Synonyms: կլայեկ (klayek), (dialectal) խալայ (xalay)

In colloquial speech Russian о́лово (ólovo) is often used instead.

From Hurrian *anagi (“tin”), from Akkadian 𒀭𒈾 (annakum, “tin; lead”), ultimately connected to Sumerian 𒀭𒈾 (an-na /⁠anna⁠/, “metal”).

անագ • (anag)

1. tin

   օծանել՝ դրուագել անագաւ ― ōcanel, druagel anagaw ― to tin, to cover with tin

   օծումն անագաւ ― ōcumn anagaw ― act or employment of tinning

• անագեայ (anageay)
• անագեմ (anagem)

• → Armenian: անագ (anag)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “անագ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “անագ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “անագ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period]‎ (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 425
• Diakonoff, Igor M. (1985) “Hurro-Urartian Borrowings in Old Armenian”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society‎, volume 105, number 4, pages 597–603
• Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate‎, PhD dissertation, Leiden University, page 15