գրապան

• գրապանակ (grapanak)

An Iranian borrowing; compare Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (glywpʾn' /grīwbān/, “neck-guard, gorge”), Classical Persian گریبان‎ (girībān, “collar, the opening or breast of a garment; pocket”). For the constituents see Proto-Indo-Iranian *griHwáH (“neck”) and Old Armenian -պան (-pan, “keeper, protector”).

գրապան • (grapan)

1. hem at the neckline or the skirt of the dress
2. ephod

   Synonyms: վակաս (vakas), ուսանոց (usanocʿ)

3. (post-Classical) pocket

• Middle Armenian: գրպան (grpan)
  • → Armenian: գրպան (grpan)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “գրապան”, 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, pages 602–603
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “գրապան”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 132
• Lagarde, Paul de (1866) Gesammelte Abhandlungen (in German), Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, page 202
• Lagarde, Paul de (1877) Armenische Studien (in German), Göttingen: Dieterich, § 538, page 40
• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “գրապան”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy