ասփուր

Middle Armenian

Alternative forms
  • ասպուր (aspur), ասպուռ (aspuṙ), ասֆուր (asfur), մասփուր (maspʿur), մասփար (maspʿar)

Etymology

From Arabic عُصْفُر‎ (ʕuṣfur). The forms with an մ- (m-) are from the related مُعَصْفَر‎ (muʕaṣfar, “safflower”).

Ačaṙyan records the given names Մասպուռ (Maspuṙ) [1628] and Մասփուր (Maspʿur) [1629] as alternative forms of Մասուր (Masur, literally “rosehip”),[1] but they are rather derived from this safflower word.

Noun

ասփուր • (aspʿur)

  1. safflower, Carthamus tinctorius
    Synonym: ղրտում (łrtum)
    • 6th–12th? centuries, Baṙkʿ Gałianosi [The Greek–Armenian Dictionary to Galen] :[2]
      Կրտոմ (vars. կրտում, կտրոմ) = մասփարի (vars. մարփարի, մասփրի, կասփարի) հունդ ։
      Krtom (vars. krtum, ktrom) = maspʿari (vars. marpʿari, maspʿri, kaspʿari) hund .
      قُرْطُم‎ (qurṭum) = seed of safflower
    • 9th or 10th century, with changes and additions in later centuries, Tʿargmanutʿiwn dełocʿ zor əntrel en imastasērkʿn ew kargeal yayl lezuacʿ [A Medieval Arabic–Armenian Botanical Dictionary] :[3]
      Ալոփալջիլ (var. ալոփալջրիկ) = մասփուրի հունդ։
      Alopʿalǰil (var. alopʿalǰrik) = maspʿuri hund.
      الْعُصْفُر‎ (al-ʕuṣfur) = seed of safflower

References
  1. Ačaṙyan, Hračʿya (1946), “ասփուր”, in Hayocʿ anjnanunneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Personal Names of Armenians] (Erewani petakan hamalsaran. Gitakan ašxatutʿyunner; 25) (in Armenian), volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 217
  2. Greppin, John A. C. (1985) Baṙkʿ Gaɫianosi: The Greek–Armenian Dictionary to Galen‎, Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, page 132
  3. Greppin, John A. C. (1997) A Medieval Arabic–Armenian Botanical Dictionary (Studien zur armenischen Geschichte; 16), separate reprint of the Handes Amsorya 109 (1995), 380–457 edition, Vienna: Mechitarist Press, § 9, page 21

Further reading
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “ասպուր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 276a
  • Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “ասպուր”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Łazaryan, Ṙ. S.; Avetisyan, H. M. (2009), “ասփուր”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Norayr N. Biwzandacʿi (1884), “carthame”, in Baṙagirkʿ i gałłierēn lezuē i hayerēn [Dictionary from the French Language into Armenian], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian Press, page 204a
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