մուրտաստան

Old Armenian

Etymology

Formed within Armenian as մուրտ (murt) + -աստան (-astan) or wholly borrowed from Middle Iranian: compare Persian موردستان (murdestân, a toponym, literally myrtle-place)[1][2][3].

Noun

մուրտաստան (murtastan)

  1. myrtle-grove
    • 5th century, Bible, Judges 1.35:[4]
      Եւ սկսաւ ամուրհացին բնակել ի լերինն մուրտաստանի(var. մուրաստանի)․ ուր արջք և աղուէսք ի մուրտաստանսն(var. մուրաստանն) և ի Սաղապին։
      Ew sksaw amurhacʿin bnakel i lerinn murtastani(var. murastani); ur arǰkʿ ew ałuēskʿ i murtastansn(var. murastann) ew i Sałapin.
      And the Amorite began to dwell in the mountain of myrtle-grove, in which [are] bears, and foxes, in myrtle-grove, and in Thalabin.

Usage notes

In the Bible renders Ancient Greek Μυρσινών (Mursinṓn). Sometimes treated as a proper noun.

Declension

References

  1. Angelus à S. Joseph (1684) Gazophylacium linguae Persarum, Amsterdam, page 231
  2. Tʿireakʿean, Yarutʿiwn (1914), մուրտաստան”, in Ariahay baṙaran : Norog tesutʿeambkʿ ew yaweluacovkʿ [Armeno-Aryan Dictionary] (in Armenian), Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 276
  3. Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 333
  4. Zōhrapean, Yovhannēs, editor (1805) Astuacašunčʿ matean Hin ew Nor Ktakaranacʿ [Bible: Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments], volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 473

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), մուրտ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 364b
  • Awgerean, Mkrtičʿ; Čēlalean, Grigor (1865), մուրտաստան”, in Aṙjeṙn baṙaran haykaznean lezui [Pocket Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 573b
  • Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), մուրտաստան”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
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