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单词 արջն
释义

արջն

Old Armenian

Etymology

The origin is uncertain. Has been compared to արջ (arǰ, bear), արջառ (arǰaṙ, cattle); Ancient Greek ὄρφνη (órphnē, darkness of night); Proto-Nakh *ʡārč̣iᶰ; Khotanese rrāṣa (dark-coloured), Avestan 𐬭𐬀𐬘𐬌𐬱 (rajiš, darkness), Sanskrit रजस् (rájas, darkness), रजनी (rájanī, night); Georgian არჯაკელი (arǯaḳeli), არჯიოკა (arǯioḳa).

Most likely the Armenian word is borrowed from Iranian. Note also the compound արջասպ (arǰasp, vitriol), wherein the -ասպ (-asp) is from Iranian and is not used in Armenian independently; therefore that compound is probably wholly-borrowed from Iranian.

Adjective

արջն (arǰn)

  1. black
    Synonym: սեաւ (seaw)
    • 5th century, Pʿawstos Buzand, Hayoc Patmutʿiwnʿ [History of the Armenians] III.14:[1]
      Եւ յաւուրս ձմերանոյն՝ յորժամ կուտեալ դիզեալ զմեծութիւն բազմութիւն թանձրութեան ձեանցն կուտակեալ հիւս ձեանցն ի վերայ ձմերային լերանցն՝ յայնպիսի լերանց ի վերայ ընդ այնպիսի ժամանակի կամէր ուրեք երթալ ի պէտս ճանապարհի, յանկարծօրէն ձիւնն ցամաք արջն լինէր առաջի նորա։
      Ew yawurs jmeranoyn, yoržam kuteal dizeal zmecutʿiwn bazmutʿiwn tʿanjrutʿean jeancʿn kutakeal hiws jeancʿn i veray jmerayin lerancʿn, yaynpisi lerancʿ i veray ənd aynpisi žamanaki kamēr urekʿ ertʿal i pēts čanaparhi, yankarcōrēn jiwnn cʿamakʿ arǰn linēr aṙaǰi nora.
      • Translation by Nina G. Garsoïan
        And in wintertime, when a great thickness of snow was piled on the wintery mountains, and he wished to cross somewhere over such mountains at such a time because of the needs of a journey somewhere, the snow suddenly became black earth before him.

Usage notes

Outside compounds, արջն (arǰn) is independently attested only in the quoted passage of Buzand. But Greppin here too sees a compound ցամաք-արջն (cʿamakʿ-arǰn, utterly black).

Derived terms

  • արջասպ (arǰasp)
  • արջնաբոլոր (arǰnabolor)
  • արջնագոյն (arǰnagoyn)
  • արջնագռաւ (arǰnagṙaw)
  • արջնազգեստ (arǰnazgest)
  • արջնազգեցեալ (arǰnazgecʿeal)
  • արջնաթոյր (arǰnatʿoyr)
  • արջնայեղց (arǰnayełcʿ)
  • արջնատես (arǰnates)
  • արջնատեսակ (arǰnatesak)
  • արջնդեղ (arǰndeł)

References

  1. Garsoïan, Nina G. (1989) The Epic Histories Attributed to P‘awstos Buzand (Buzandaran Patmut‘iwnk‘), Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, page 87

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), արջն”, 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 335–336
  • Greppin, John A. C. (1983), “An Etymological Dictionary of the Indo-European Components of Armenian”, in Bazmavep, volume 141, issue 1–4, Venice, pages 315–316
  • Hovhannisyan, L. Š. (2010), արջն”, in Grabari baṙaran. Nor haykazyan baṙaranum čʿvkayvac baṙer [Dictionary of Old Armenian. Words Unattested in the New Haykazyan Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Edit Print, page 60a
  • J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1981), “Hay-iranakan zugadipumner [Armenian–Iranian concurrences]”, in Banber Erewani hamalsarani [“Banber” – Bulletin of Yerevan University] (in Armenian), issue 2, pages 21–22
  • J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʿ lezvi patmutʿyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 517, 609
  • J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010), արջն”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 95b
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010), “arǰn”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 145
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