պրտու

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian պրտու (prtu).

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [pəɾˈtu]
• (Western Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [bəɾˈdu]

պրտու • (prtu)

1. papyrus, paper reed, Cyperus papyrus (an aquatic flowering plant of the sedge family)

   Synonym: պապիրուս (papirus)

• Łazaryan, Ṙ. S. (1981), “պրտու”, in Busanunneri hayeren-latineren-ṙuseren-angleren-franseren-germaneren baṙaran [Armenian–Latin–Russian–English–French–German Dictionary of Plant Names], Yerevan: University Press, § 977, page 78

The origin is uncertain. Since Gēorg Dpir usually connected with Arabic بُرْدِيّ‎ (burdiyy), but a direct borrowing from the Arabic is neither chronologically nor phonologically possible. Closely related to Assyrian Neo-Aramaic ܦܪܬܘܟ‎ (pirtūk, “rush, reed”), Northern Kurdish pirtûk, Central Kurdish پەرتووک‎ (pertûk), Zazaki pîrtok (“book”).

պրտու • (prtu)

1. papyrus, paper reed, Cyperus papyrus (an aquatic flowering plant of the sedge family)
   • 5th century, Bible, Job 8.11:[1]

     Մի թե կանաչանա՞յ պրտու առանց ջրոյ․ կամ բարձրանայցէ՞ կնիւն առանց ըմպելոյ։

     Mi tʿe kanačʿana^?y prtu aṙancʿ ǰroy; kam barjranaycʿē^? kniwn aṙancʿ əmpeloy.

     • Translation by Claude E. Cox

       "Does papyrus green without water, or will sedge become tall without drinking?"

In Job, translates Ancient Greek πάπυρος (pápuros).

• → Armenian: պրտու (prtu)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “պրտու”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 116b
• Ališan, Łewond (1895), “պրտու”, in Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʿiwn [Armenian Botany] (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 2620, page 542
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1837), “պրտու”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 667a
• Palatecʿi, Gēorg Dpir (1829) Baṙaran Parskerēn əst kargi haykakan aybubenicʿ [Persian Dictionary in the Order of the Armenian Alphabet] (in Armenian), Constantinople: Boghos Arabian Press, page 713b
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010), “պրտու”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 647a
• 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 937
• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “պրտու”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 619