մունդառ

Armenian

Etymology

From Middle Armenian, from Ottoman Turkish مردار (murdar, mundar), from Persian مردار (mordâr).

Pronunciation

Adjective

մունդառ (mundaṙ) (superlative ամենամունդառ) (dialectal, colloquial)

  1. dirty, filthy, unclean
    Synonyms: պիղծ (piłc), անմաքուր (anmakʿur), կեղտոտ (kełtot)
    • ca. 1680–1684, Baṙ girg taliani [An Armenian–Italian Dictionary published in Venice] page 40:[1]
      մուռտառ․ ըսփօռքօ
      muṙtaṙ; əspʿōṙkʿō
      մուռտառ (muṙtaṙ) = sporco
  2. dishonest, wicked
    Synonyms: խարդախ (xardax), նենգ (neng)

Declension

Alternative forms

  • մուռտառ (muṙtaṙ), մունտառ (muntaṙ), մունդա̈ռ (mundäṙ), մուրդառ (murdaṙ), մուռտալ (muṙtal)

References

  1. Orengo, Alessandro (2019), “Il ԲԱՌ ԳԻՐԳ ՏԱԼԻԱՆԻ Un dizionario armeno-italiano del XVII secolo”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15), Leuven: Peeters, page 233

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1902), մունտառ”, in Tʿurkʿerēni azdecʿutʿiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʿurkʿerēnē pʿoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žołovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʿeamb Vani, Łarabałi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žołovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 240
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2001–2012), մուռտառ”, in Hayocʿ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Hayastan
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