Մսըր

Armenian

Alternative forms

  • Մսր (Msr), Մըսր (Məsr), Մըսըր (Məsər), Մսիր (Msir), Միսիր (Misir)

Etymology

From Middle Armenian Մսըր (Msər), from Ottoman Turkish مصر (mısır).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Մսըր (Msər)

  1. (dialectal) Egypt (a country in North Africa and Western Asia)
    Synonym: Եգիպտոս (Egiptos)
  2. (obsolete) a male given name

Declension

Further reading

  • Ačaṙyan, Hračʿya (1946), Մսըր”, in Hayocʿ anjnanunneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Personal Names of Armenians] (Erewani petakan hamalsaran. Gitakan ašxatutʿyunner; 25) (in Armenian), volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 474
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2007), Մսըր”, in Hayocʿ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume IV, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 84ab

Middle Armenian

Alternative forms

  • Մսր (Msr)

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مصر (Mısır), from Arabic مِصْر (miṣr).

Noun

Մսըր (Msər)

  1. Egypt (a country in North Africa and Western Asia)
  2. a male given name
    • 1468, Inscription (Khachkar in the Orbelian family cemetery in Ełegis, Vayocʿ Jor, Armenia) :[1][2]
      ԿԱՆԿ[ՆԵ]ՑԻ ԽԱՉ[Ս] Ի ՓՐԿ[ՈՒ]Թ[ԻՒՆ] ՄՍՐԻՆ ։Թ։ ՋԺԷ
      KANK[NE]CʿI XAČʿ[S] I PʿRK[U]Tʿ[IWN] MSRIN .Tʿ. J̌ŽĒ
      I set up this cross for the salvation of Msr in the year 917 [AE = 1468 CE]

Derived terms

  • մսրցի (msrcʿi)
  • մսրի (msri)

Descendants

  • Armenian: Մսըր (Msər)

References

  1. Barxudaryan, S. G. (1967), K. G. Łafadaryan, editor, Divan hay vimagrutʿyan. Prak III, Vayocʿ Jor, Ełegnajori ew Azizbekovi šrǰanner [Corpus Inscriptionum Armenicarum. Volume III, Vayots Dzor: Districts of Yeghegnadzor and Azizbekov] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, § 326, page 113
  2. Stone, Michael E. (2019), “The Orbelian family cemetery in Ełegis, Vayoc‘ Jor, Armenia”, 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), with notes by Aram Topchyan, printed also in REArm 33 (2011), Leuven: Peeters, page 358

Further reading

  • Ačaṙyan, Hračʿya (1946), Մսըր”, in Hayocʿ anjnanunneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Personal Names of Armenians] (Erewani petakan hamalsaran. Gitakan ašxatutʿyunner; 25) (in Armenian), volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 474
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