ասուպ

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian ասուպ (asup), found only in HHB citing Albertus Magnus,^[1] several medieval Armenian translations of whom are known. Borrowed from Medieval Latin asub (“meteor”) attested in the writings of Albertus Magnus, which the Armenian translator simply transliterated. Asub, assub is a Latinized form of Arabic أَشْهُب (ʔašhub), plural of شِهَاب (šihāb, “meteor”).

Note also Middle Armenian ասպ (asp, “comet”) in Mxitʻar Ayrivanecʻi.^[2]

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

ասուպ • (asup)

1. meteor, shooting star

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “ասուպ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 270a
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836) “ասուպ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 315a
• Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (2000) “ասուպ”, in Martiros Minassian, editor, Baṙagirkʻ storin hayerēni i matenagrutʻeancʻ ŽA–ŽĒ darucʻ [Dictionary of Middle Armenian Based on the Literature of 11–17th Centuries]‎, edited from the author's unfinished manuscript written 1884–1915, Geneva: Martiros Minassian, pages 71–72
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “ասուպ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, pages 77–78
• J̌axǰaxean, Manuēl (1804) “asub”, in Baṙaran yitalakan lezuē i hay ew i tačik barbaṙ [Dizionario Italiano-Armeno-Turco], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 77b
• West, Andrew F. (1891) “Lexicographical Gleanings from the Philobiblon of Richard de Bury”, in Transactions of the American Philological Association, volume 22, page 100