բարբուզան

Middle Armenian

Alternative forms
  • բարբիւզակ (barbiwzak), բարբիւզնակ (barbiwznak), բարբուզնա (barbuzna), բարբուզնօ (barbuznō)

Etymology

Recorded in several dialects referring to a kind of wild blue flower similar to iris.

Ališan and following him Ačaṙyan consider this a borrowing from the synonymous Arabic جَرْبُوز‎ (jarbūz), يَرْبُوز‎ (yarbūz), supposedly mistakenly read as *بَرْبُوز (*barbūz).[1][2] However, such a bookish derivation is unlikely for a term used in the dialects. More likely an Iranian borrowing: compare Pashto بربوزک‎ (barbuzák, “Allium oreoprasum”).[3]

Noun

բարբուզան • (barbuzan)

  1. leafy goosefoot, Blitum virgatum[4]
    • 1614 – 1622, Asar Sebastacʿi, Girkʿ bžškakan arhesti [Book of Medical Art] :[5]
      Բարբուզանաւ, որ է վլիտոն և ինքն ծիմելն է։
      Barbuzanaw, or ē vliton ew inkʿn cimeln ē.

Descendants
  • Armenian: բարբուզնակ (barbuznak), բարբյուզակ (barbyuzak), բարբյուզնակ (barbyuznak), պարպյուզնակ (parpyuznak), պորպզնակ (porpznak), պարպըզնակը ծաղիքյ (parpəznakə całikʿy) (dialectal)

Further reading
  • Ališan, Łewond (1895) Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʿiwn [Armenian Botany]‎ (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 315, page 85
  • Łazaryan, Ṙ. S. (1981), “հիրիկ”, in Busanunneri hayeren-latineren-ṙuseren-angleren-franseren-germaneren baṙaran [Armenian–Latin–Russian–English–French–German Dictionary of Plant Names], Yerevan: University Press, § 699, page 57
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2001), “բարբյուզակ”, in Hayocʿ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 168b

References
  1. Ališan, Łewond (1895) Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʿiwn [Armenian Botany]‎ (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 1195, page 273
  2. Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “բարբիւզակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 420–421
  3. Mkrtčʿyan, Nerses (2004), “Banasirakan čšgrtumner ew lracʿumner [Philological Corrections and Additions]”, in Patma-banasirakan handes [Historical-Philological Journal]‎ (in Armenian), issue 3, pages 180–181
  4. Asar Sebastacʿi (1993) Girkʿ bžškakan arhesti (XVI—XVII dd.) [Book of Medical Art (16–17th cc.)], preparation of the text, preface and dictionary by D. M. Karapetyan, Yerevan: Academy Press, page 331
  5. Asar Sebastacʿi (1993) Girkʿ bžškakan arhesti (XVI—XVII dd.) [Book of Medical Art (16–17th cc.)], preparation of the text, preface and dictionary by D. M. Karapetyan, Yerevan: Academy Press, page 239
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