ծփի

Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Ulmus laevis

From ծփալ (cpʿal, to flutter) + (-i, botanical suffix). Calque of German Flatterulme, from flattern (to flutter). Probably coined by the Mekhitarists of Vienna, first appearing in Mēnēvišean's botany and hence copied into dictionaries.

Pronunciation

Noun

ծփի (cpʿi) (rare)

  1. European white elm (Ulmus laevis, syn. Ulmus effusa)
    • 1897, Gabriēl Mēnēvišean, Patkerazard bnakan patmutʿiwn, B. Busabanutʿiwn [Illustrated Natural History: 2. Botany] :[1]
      Ծփին (Ulmus effusa) առաջինին շատ կը նմանի []
      Cpʿin (Ulmus effusa) aṙaǰinin šat kə nmani []
      The European white elm (Ulmus effusa) is very similar to the first one (Ulmus campestris) []
  2. (by extension) elm (any tree of the genus Ulmus)
    Synonym: թեղի (tʿełi)

Usage notes

Initially referring only to the European white elm[2] (see the quote from Mēnēvišean), later is used imprecisely for the whole genus[3][4].

Declension

References

  1. Mēnēvišean, Gabriēl (1897) Patkerazard bnakan patmutʿiwn, B. Busabanutʿiwn [Illustrated Natural History: 2. Botany] (in Armenian), Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 223
  2. Malxaseancʿ, Stepʿan (1944), ծփի”, in Hayerēn bacʿatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume II, Yerevan: State Publishing House, page 358a
  3. Łazaryan, Ṙ. S. (1981), ծփի”, in Busanunneri hayeren-latineren-ṙuseren-angleren-franseren-germaneren baṙaran [Armenian–Latin–Russian–English–French–German Dictionary of Plant Names], Yerevan: University Press, § 367, page 33a
  4. Ayvazyan H. M. et al., editors (2006), թեղի”, in Hayastani bnašxarh [Nature of Armenia] (Əntanekan hanragitaran matenašar; 3) (in Armenian), Yerevan: Armenian Encyclopaedia, page 247b

Further reading

  • ծփի”, in Žamanakakicʿ hayocʿ lezvi bacʿatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, 1972, page 714a
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