վիպասան

Armenian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Armenian վիպասան (vipasan).

Pronunciation

Noun

վիպասան (vipasan)

  1. novelist
  2. storyteller, bard, composer or reciter of stories or epics (especially in ancient and medieval Armenia)

Declension

Old Armenian

Etymology

Usually considered an inner-Armenian formation as վէպ (vēp) + ասեմ (asem) + -ան (-an), but Asatryan argues for a possibility of borrowing from Middle Iranian *vēp(a)sān, from Old Iranian *waipa-sāhana-; for the first part see վէպ (vēp), for the second գովասան (govasan) and 𐫃𐫇𐫘𐫀𐫗 (gwsʾn).

Noun

վիպասան (vipasan)

  1. storyteller, narrator of ancient stories, vipasan
  2. historian

Declension

Adjective

վիպասան (vipasan)

  1. of or pertaining to վիպասան (vipasan)

Declension

Descendants

  • Armenian: վիպասան (vipasan)

References

  • Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), վիպասան”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), վիպասան”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), վէպ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 336a
  • 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 104 of 102–105
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