աշուղ

Armenian

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic عَاشِق (ʕāšiq), according to Sevortjan (apud Anikin) mediated specifically by Kipchak asuch (/*ašuq/) attested in Codex Cumanicus.

Pronunciation

Noun

աշուղ (ašuł)

  1. ashugh
    Synonym: գուսան (gusan)
  2. (obsolete) lover
    • ca. 1680–1684, Baṙ girg taliani [An Armenian–Italian Dictionary published in Venice] page 4:[1]
      աշուղ լինիլ․ ինամօռարսի
      ašuł linil; inamōṙarsi
      աշուղ լինիլ (ašuł linil) = innamorarsi

Usage notes

Starting from 1970s the Armenian աշուղ (ašuł) were consciously renamed գուսան (gusan), a revived Old Armenian word, because the former name had acquired pejorative connotations.

Declension

Descendants

  • English: ashough, ashugh
  • Georgian: აშუღი (ašuɣi)
  • Russian: ашу́г (ašúg)

References

  1. Orengo, Alessandro (2019), “Il ԲԱՌ ԳԻՐԳ ՏԱԼԻԱՆԻ Un dizionario armeno-italiano del XVII secolo”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15), Leuven: Peeters, page 214

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “Haykakankʿ (Armeniaca)”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 629b
  • Anikin, A. E. (2007), ашуг”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 1 (а – аяюшка), Moscow: Manuscript Monuments Ancient Rus, →ISBN, page 355
  • Tʿahmizyan N. (1974), աշուղ”, in Hambarjumyan V. H. et al., editors, Haykakan sovetakan hanragitaran [Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: Haykakan sovetakan hanragitarani glxavor xmbagrutʿyun, page 494a
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