գոս

Armenian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Middle Armenian գոս (gos), from Persian کوس (kôs). Standard Eastern Armenian [ɡɔs] is a spelling pronunciation.

Pronunciation

Noun

գոս (gos)

  1. kettledrum

Declension

Further reading

  • Ałayan, Ēduard (1976), գոս”, in Ardi hayereni bacʿatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Hayastan

Middle Armenian

Alternative forms

  • քօզ (kʿōz)

Etymology

From Persian کوس (kôs).

Not connected with գուսան (gusan), despite Bailey 1934. It should be borne in mind that Middle Armenian գ (g) represents here /kʰ/.

Noun

գոս (gos) (nominative plural գոսեր)

  1. kettledrum
    • 1145, Nersēs Šnorhali, Ołb Edesioy [Elegy on the Fall of Edessa] :
      Փողս եւ գոսերս գոչէին, իբրեւ յամպոցն որոտային []
      Pʿołs ew gosers gočʿēin, ibrew yampocʿn orotayin []
      • Translation by Theo van Lint
        They blew the trumpet and struck the kettle-drum, they thundered like the clouds []

Descendants

  • Armenian: գոս (gos)

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), գոս”, 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 2ab
  • Асатрян, Г. С. (2013), “Парфянское gōsān [Parthian gōsān]”, in С. Р. Тохтасьев, П. Б. Лурье, editors, Commentationes Iranicae. Сборник статей к 90-летию Владимира Ароновича Лившица (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Nestor-Istoriya, →ISBN, page 103 of 102–105
  • Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), գոս”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Bailey, H. W. (1934), “Iranica (II)”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, issue 3, page 515
  • Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 64a
  • Łazaryan, Ṙ. S.; Avetisyan, H. M. (2009), գոս”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), գոս”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
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