ցիրդ

The origin is unknown. Petersson compares to Sanskrit सिध्रक (sidhraka, “a kind of tree”) and derives from Proto-Indo-European *sḱidh-ro-. Adoncʿ and Kapancjan compare to Akkadian 𒄑𒋛𒅕𒁺 (^GIŠsi.ir.du /sirdu/), a kind of oil-producing tree nowadays identified with the olive-tree.

ցիրդ • (cʿird)

1. savin, Juniperus sabina
   • 5th? century, Movsēs Xorenacʿi, Patmutʿiwn Hayocʿ [History of Armenia] Book III.Chapter 45:

     Սակայն եւ ոչ այն ինչ վնասեաց․ քանզի յոյժ ի բացեայ պահէր ցիրդն։

     Sakayn ew očʿ ayn inčʿ vnaseacʿ; kʿanzi yoyž i bacʿeay pahēr cʿirdn.

     • Translation by Robert Thomson

       But this brought no harm because the brambles kept it well away.

• ցրդի (cʿrdi)
• ցրդենի (cʿrdeni)

• Middle Armenian: ցիրտ (cʿirt)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “ցիրդ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 457a
• Adoncʿ, Nikołayos (2008) Erker. hat. G., Hayerenagitakan usumnasirutʿyunner [Works. Volume III, Armenian Language Studies]‎ (in Armenian), Yerevan: University Press, page 391
• Ališan, Łewond (1895) Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʿiwn [Armenian Botany]‎ (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 3020, page 621
• Ališan, Łewond (1895) Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʿiwn [Armenian Botany]‎ (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 3030, page 625
• Artʿinean, Yovhannēs (1913) Astuacašunčʿi tunkerə usumnasiruac mer naxneacʿ tʿargmanutʿean vray [Les plantes de la Bible d’après la version Arménienne du Ve siècle par le docteur Johannès Artignan]‎ (in Armenian), Constantinople: K. ew M.Y. Kʿēšišean, page 60
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “ցիրդ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Bedevian, Armenag K. (1936), “J. Sabina”, in Illustrated Polyglottic Dictionary of Plant Names, Cairo: Argus & Papazian Presses, § 1981, page 342
• Greppin, John A. C. (1997) A Medieval Arabic–Armenian Botanical Dictionary (Studien zur armenischen Geschichte; 16), separate reprint of the Handes Amsorya 109 (1995), 380–457 edition, Vienna: Mechitarist Press, § 1, pages 15–16, printed ցրդենոյ պտուղ (cʿrdenoy ptuł)
• Kapancjan, G. A. (1975) Istoriko-lingvističeskije raboty. Tom II [Historical-Linguistic Works. Volume II] (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 170
• 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 438
• Petersson, Herbert (1920) Arische und armenische Studien (Lunds Universitets Årsskrift N.F. Avd. 1, Bd. 16. Nr. 3) (in German), Lund, Leipzig, page 36
• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “ցիրդ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy