ասորի

Armenian

Etymology

From Old Armenian ասորի (asori).

Pronunciation

Noun

ասորի (asori)

  1. Syriac, Syrian (member of an ethnoreligious grouping indigenous to Syria and Mesopotamia, practicing various forms of Syriac Christianity and speaking Neo-Aramaic languages, historically also Classical Syriac; now variously self-identifying as Syriac, Aramean, Chaldean or Assyrian)

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  • Russian: айсо́р (ajsór)

See also

Further reading

  • Nierszesovicz, Deodatus (1695), assiriacus”, in Dictionarium Latino-Armenum [Latin–Armenian Dictionary], Rome: typis Sacrae Congr. de Propag. Fide, page 47a
  • Rivola, Francesco (1633), ասորի”, in Baṙagirkʿ hayocʿ [Dictionarium Armeno-Latinum], first published in 1621 in Milan, 2nd edition, Paris: Impensis Societatis Typographicae Librorum Officii Ecclesiastici, page 34, translated as assyrius, seu syrus
  • Villotte, Jacques (1714), assyrius”, in Dictionarium Novum Latino-Armenium [New Latin–Armenian Dictionary], Rome: Typis Sac. Congreg. de Propaganda Fide, page 70a

Old Armenian

Etymology

Borrowed from Iranian:[1][2] compare Parthian 𐭀𐭎𐭅𐭓 (ʾswr /Āsōr/). Ultimately from Akkadian 𒀸𒋩𒆠 (Aššūr),

Noun

ասորի (asori)

  1. Syriac, Syrian (member of an ethnoreligious grouping indigenous to Syria and Mesopotamia, practicing Syriac Christianity and speaking Classical Syriac)
    • 5th century, Bible, Genesis 22.21:[3]
      զՈվքս զանդրանիկն նորա եւ զԲաւ զեղբայր նորա եւ զԿամուէլ հայր Ասորւոց
      zOvkʿs zandranikn nora ew zBaw zełbayr nora ew zKamuēl hayr Asorwocʿ
      • Translation by Brenton Septuagint Translation
        Uz the first-born, and Baux his brother, and Camuel the father of the Syrians

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References

  1. Bailey, H. W. (1930), “Iranica”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, volume 11, issue 1, page 19 of 1–5
  2. Bailey, H. W. (1987), “Armenia and Iran IV. Iranian influences in Armenian 2. Iranian loanwords in Armenian”, in Ehsan Yarshater, editor, Encyclopædia Iranica, volume 2, London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, page 465b of 459–465
  3. Zeytʿunyan A. S., editor (1985) Girkʿ cnndocʿ [Book of Genesis] (Hay hnaguyn tʿargmanakan hušarjanner; 1), critical text, Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 240–241

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