սենեակ

Old Armenian

Alternative forms

  • սենէկ (senēk) (post-classical)

Etymology

Together with Old Georgian სენაკი (senaḳi) borrowed from Iranian.

Noun

սենեակ (seneak)

  1. chamber, room
  2. cabinet, closet
  3. (figuratively) concubine

Declension

Derived terms

  • սենեկագործ (senekagorc)
  • սենեկապան (senekapan)
  • սենեկապետ (senekapet)
  • սենեկապետութիւն (senekapetutʿiwn)
  • սենեկաւոր (senekawor)
  • սենեկիկ (senekik)

Descendants

  • Armenian: սենյակ (senyak) (learned)

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), սենեակ”, 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 201ab
  • Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), սենեակ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Gippert, Jost (1993) Iranica Armeno-Iberica: Studien zu den iranischen Lehnwörtern im Armenischen und Georgischen (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse. Sitzungsberichte; 606. Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Iranistik; 26) (in German), volume I, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, pages 229–235
  • 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 374
  • Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), սենեակ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Rapp, Stephen H. (2014) The Sasanian World through Georgian Eyes: Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian Literature, Ashgate Publishing, page 59
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