դոն

• դօն (dōn) – traditional orthography spelling

Inherited from Middle Armenian դոն (don).

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [dɔn]
• (Western Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [tʰɔn]

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դոն • (don)

1. (dialectal) kind of longish bread

• դոնիկ (donik)

• Amatuni, Sahak (1912), “դօն”, in Hayocʿ baṙ u ban [Armenian Words and Idioms] (in Armenian), Vagharshapat: Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin
• Malxaseancʿ, Stepʿan (1944–1945), “դօն”, in Hayerēn bacʿatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: State Publishing House

Uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰoHnéh₂, but a *դուն (*dun) was expected from it. Alternatively, somehow connected with Hittite [script needed] (dūni-), [script needed] (tunik, “kind of pastry”).

դոն • (don)

1. kind of bread
   • 14th century, Grigor Tatʿewacʿi, Meknutʿiwn Yohannu Awetaranin [Commentary on the Gospel of John] :[1]

     Վասն դոնի
     Դարձեալ գիտելի է, որ ի վանորայս եփեն զհացն և կոչեն «դոն», այսինքն՝ դուն նուազ և փոքր ի ձև ձկան, և բեկել նկանակացն նմանեցուցեալ։

     Vasn doni
     Darjeal giteli ē, or i vanorays epʿen zhacʿn ew kočʿen “don”, aysinkʿn, dun nuaz ew pʿokʿr i jew jkan, ew bekel nkanakacʿn nmanecʿucʿeal.

2. (transferred sense) an architectural ornament/detail, probably architrave

• Armenian: դոն (don)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “դոն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Łazaryan, Ṙ. S.; Avetisyan, H. M. (2009), “դոն”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Hovhannisyan, L. Š. (2010), “դոն”, in Grabari baṙaran. Nor haykazyan baṙaranum čʿvkayvac baṙer [Dictionary of Old Armenian. Words Unattested in the New Haykazyan Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Edit Print, page 98
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 241
• Norayr N. Biwzandacʿi (2000), “դոն”, in Martiros Minassian, editor, Baṙagirkʿ storin hayerēni i matenagrutʿeancʿ ŽA–ŽĒ darucʿ [Dictionary of Middle Armenian Based on the Literature of 11–17th Centuries], edited from the author's unfinished manuscript written 1884–1915, Geneva: Martiros Minassian
• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “դոն”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy