Մայրաբերդ

Armenian

Etymology

մայր (mayr, mother) + -ա- (-a-) + բերդ (berd, fortress)

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Մայրաբերդ (Mayraberd)

  1. Askeran fortress

Declension

Further reading

Old Armenian

Etymology

From մայր (mayr, mother) + -ա- (-a-) + բերդ (berd, fortress). Calque of Old Georgian დედაციხე (dedacixe) which stands in the same passage in the Georgian version of The Georgian Chronicles.[1]

Proper noun

Մայրաբերդ (Mayraberd)

  1. name of a fortress in Georgia
    • 13th century, Patmutʿiwn vracʿ [The History of Georgians] :[2][1]
      Եւ Մցխեթոս էր աւագ նոցա․ սա թաղեաց զհայրն իւր ի գլուխն Քարթլայ, ի լեառն Արմազ։ Եւ կինն Քարթլոսայ շինեաց զՄայրաբերդ եւ զքաղաքն, որ կոչի Ռիշա, որ է Պարտիզաքաղաք։
      Ew Mcʿxetʿos ēr awag nocʿa; sa tʿałeacʿ zhayrn iwr i gluxn Kʿartʿlay, i leaṙn Armaz. Ew kinn Kʿartʿlosay šineacʿ zMayraberd ew zkʿałakʿn, or kočʿi Ṙiša, or ē Partizakʿałakʿ.
      • Translation by Robert W. Thomson
        Mcʿxetʿa was the eldest of them. He buried his father at the entrance of Kʿartʿli on Mount Armaz. The wife of Kʿartʿlos built Mayraberd and the city which is called Ṙiša, also (known as) Partizakʿalakʿ.

References

  1. Thomson, Robert W. (1996) Rewriting Caucasian History: The Medieval Armenian Adaptation of the Georgian Chronicles. The Original Georgian Texts and the Armenian Adaptation, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages xlvi, 10
  2. J̌uanšēr (1884) Hamaṙōt patmutʿiwn vracʿ [Abridged History of Georgians] (Matenagrutʿiwnkʿ naxneacʿ), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 11
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