զիգն

Transliteration of Ancient Greek ζύγαινα (zúgaina, “hammer-headed shark”).[1] Attested only in Hexaemeron, translating that Greek word.

զիգն • (zign)

1. hammerhead shark
   • 5th century, Basil of Caesarea, Yałags Vecʿawreay ararčʿutʿean [Homiliae in Hexaemeron] :[1][2]

     Քանզի ոչ եթէ միայն, որ անուանեալ կոչին քսիւփիէ, պրիոնէ, եւ շնջրիք, եւ կեփաղք, եւ զիգն իցեն ահագինք եւ ահարկուք, այլ եւ խայթոցք տրիգոնին, որ է ձուկն ծովուն, որ եւ յետ մահու իւրոյ մեղանչական է։

     Kʿanzi očʿ etʿē miayn, or anuaneal kočʿin kʿsiwpʿiē, prionē, ew šnǰrikʿ, ew kepʿałkʿ, ew zign icʿen ahaginkʿ ew aharkukʿ, ayl ew xaytʿocʿkʿ trigonin, or ē jukn covun, or ew yet mahu iwroy mełančʿakan ē.

     • Translation by Robert W. Thomson

       Not only those called swordfish, saw-fish, otters, and whales, and hammer-shark are awesome and fearsome, but also the sting-ray, which is a fish of the sea that even after its death is harmful.

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973), “զիգն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume II, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 95a
• Gabamačean, Simon (1910), “զիգն”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hayerēn Lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Constantinople: R. Sakayan press
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 275
• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “զիգն”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy