սուրբ

From Old Armenian սուրբ (surb).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /suɾpʰ/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /suɾp/,

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սուրբ • (surb) (superlative ամենասուրբ)

1. holy, sacred

   Սուրբ Հոգի ― Surb Hogi ― Holy Spirit

   Սուրբ Ծնունդ ― Surb Cnund ― Christmas

   Սուրբ Գիրք ― Surb Girkʻ ― Bible

2. righteous, pious, godly, upright

սուրբ • (surb)

1. saint

   Սուրբ Գրիգոր Լուսավորիչ ― Surb Grigor Lusavoričʻ ― Saint Gregory the Illuminator (patron of Armenia)

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ku-bʰ-ro- with Sanskrit शुभ्र (śubhrá, “shining, beautiful”) and possibly Khotanese (suraa-, “clean, pure”) as the only cognates. Less likely Iranian origin has also been suggested.

սուրբ • (surb)

1. pure, clean, exempt, spotless, stainless, immaculate
2. divine, godly, innocent
3. (religion, sometimes capitalized) holy, sacred

   սուրբն սրբոց ― surbn srbocʻ ― the Holy of Holies

   սուրբ առնել ― surb aṙnel ― to sanctify, to purify

   սուրբ առնել զԱստուած ― surb aṙnel zAstuac ― to glorify God

   սուրբ առնել զանձն ― surb aṙnel zanjn ― to offer, consecrate or devote oneself

սուրբ • (surb)

1. (religion, sometimes capitalized) saint

սուրբ • (surb)

1. holily

In the sense of “holy, saint” the word was written abbreviated սբ՟ (sb.) = սուրբ (surb) (see the picture).

• Armenian: սուրբ (surb)

• Gočanean, Pōġos (2011) Dasakan grabari gorcnakan kʻerakanutʻiwn [Practical Grammar of Classical Old Armenian]‎ (in Armenian), Vienna and Yerevan: Mekhitarist Press, page 65
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “սուրբ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “սուրբ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “սուրբ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “surb”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 588