թեպեկ

Old Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from the unattested Byzantine Greek ancestor of Pontic Greek θώπεκας (thópekas), θέπεκας (thépekas), θεπέκ (thepék, “jackal”).

Noun

թեպեկ • (tʿepek) (post-Classical)

  1. jackal
    • post-classical, John Chrysostom, Andriakan čaṙkʿ [Ad populum Antiochenum homiliae (De statuis)] 10:[1]
      Բայց ոչ այսու միայն յայտնեցից, այլ այլովք իրօք․ զի ոչ վասն գեղեցկութեան սորա զսա աստուածացուցանէն, այլ յաղագս իւրեանց անմտութեանն․ թեպեկի վասն է՞ր երկիր պագանէին, կամ կոկորդիլոսի կամ շան, և որ այլ նուաստագոյն է ի գազանաց։
      Baycʿ očʿ aysu miayn yaytnecʿicʿ, ayl aylovkʿ irōkʿ; zi očʿ vasn gełecʿkutʿean sora zsa astuacacʿucʿanēn, ayl yałags iwreancʿ anmtutʿeann; tʿepeki vasn ē?r erkir paganēin, kam kokordilosi kam šan, ew or ayl nuastagoyn ē i gazanacʿ.
      But this will be evident not from this proof only, but from another besides. For as a proof that it is not for its beauty they have made a deity of it, but by reason of their own folly, why do they adore the ape, the crocodile, the dog, and the vilest of animals?
    • Anonymous, Riddle :[2]
      ԹԵՓԷԿ
      Այլ գեղեցիկ և իմաստուն,
      Հանց, որ առակս ասէ զնոյն,
      Դարպաս շինէ ընդ վիմով անհուն,
      Բայց գիշերն գող էր և անքուն,
      ՚Ւ երակ հաչեր նա զերդ ըզշուն։
      TʿEPʿĒK
      Ayl gełecʿik ew imastun,
      Hancʿ, or aṙaks asē znoyn,
      Darpas šinē ənd vimov anhun,
      Baycʿ gišern goł ēr ew ankʿun,
      ’W erak hačʿer na zerd əzšun.
    • 12–13th century, Mxitʿar Goš, Aṙakkʿ [Fables] :
      Թոբէկ (var. թոբեկ) թախանձէր զոզնի, թե զորդիդ քո սան առից […] մերկացո՛ զնա, զի դիւրին իցէ ի գգուել․ և իբրև ետ զնա, սկսաւ ուտել։
      Tʿobēk (var. tʿobek) tʿaxanjēr zozni, tʿe zordid kʿo san aṙicʿ […] merkacʿó zna, zi diwrin icʿē i gguel; ew ibrew et zna, sksaw utel.
      The jackal was entreating the hedgehog։ give me your son as a nursling […] lay him bare [of his spines] so I can caress him easily. And when [the hedgehog] gave him, he started eating [him].

Usage notes
  • In Chrysostom, թեպեկ (tʿepek) translates Ancient Greek πίθηκος (píthēkos, “ape, monkey”). The translator may have transliterated it as *պիթեկ (*pitʿek) which a later copyist found incomprehensible and replaced with a similar-sounding known word for another animal.
  • Some sources incorrectly identify the Armenian term with the monkey, in particular with the baboon, based on the passage in Chrysostom and the similarity to Ottoman Turkish شبك‎ (şebek).

Descendants
  • > Armenian: թիբըգ (tʿibəg, “jackal”) (inherited) – Svedia, Kessab

References
  1. Yovhannēs Oskeberan (1861) Yovhannu Oskeberani Kostandnupōlsi episkoposapeti čaṙkʿ (Matenagrutʿiwnkʿ naxneacʿ), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 789
  2. Mnacʿakanyan, A. Š. (1980) Hay miǰnadaryan hanelukner (V—XVIII dd.) [Medieval Armenian Riddles (5–18th Centuries)] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 378

Further reading
More information
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973), “թեպեկ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume II, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 173a
  • Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836), “թոբէկ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 816c
  • Awgerean, Mkrtičʿ; Čēlalean, Grigor (1865), “թեպեկ”, in Aṙjeṙn baṙaran haykaznean lezui [Pocket Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 323a
  • Awgerean, Mkrtičʿ; Čēlalean, Grigor (1865), “թեբեկ”, in Aṙjeṙn baṙaran haykaznean lezui [Pocket Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 322a
  • Awgerean, Mkrtičʿ; Čēlalean, Grigor (1865), “թոբեկ”, in Aṙjeṙn baṙaran haykaznean lezui [Pocket Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 328a
  • Hovhannisyan, L. Š. (2010), “թեպեկ”, 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 121a
  • Łazaryan, Ṙ. S.; Avetisyan, H. M. (2009), “թոբէկ”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 247b
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 648, 729
  • Norayr N. Biwzandacʿi (1996), Martiros Minassian, editor, Naxnikʿ [Corrections textuelles chez les anciens auteurs arméniens] (in Old Armenian), written in 1897–1915, Geneva: Martiros Minassian, page 368, derives by metathesis from *պեթեկ (*petʿek), from Ancient Greek πῐ́θηκος (píthēkos)
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2002), “թիբըգ”, in Hayocʿ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume II, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 109b
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