փուշտիպան

Armenian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian փուշտիպան (pʿuštipan).

Pronunciation

Noun

փուշտիպան (pʿuštipan)

  1. (dated) bodyguard, lifeguard
    Synonym: թիկնապահ (tʿiknapah)

Declension

Old Armenian

Alternative forms

  • փշտիպան (pʿštipan)

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (pwštykpʾn' /puštībān/, supporter, bodyguard).[1][2] Compare Persian پشتیبان (poštibân, prop; whatever is leant upon, trusted to). For the constituents see Proto-Iranian *pr̥štáh and -պան (-pan). Doublet of պաշտպան (paštpan).

Noun

փուշտիպան (pʿuštipan)

  1. bodyguard, lifeguard
    փուշտիպան զօրքpʿuštipan zōrkʿguard-house

Declension

  • փուշտիպանսաղար (pʿuštipansałar)

Descendants

  • Armenian: փուշտիպան (pʿuštipan)

References

  1. Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 255
  2. Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), փուշտիպան”, 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 525a

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