մովպետան մովպետ
Old Armenian
Etymology
From Middle Persian [script needed] (mgwptʾn' mgwpt' /mowbedān mowbed/, literally “mobad of mobads”), from [Book Pahlavi needed] (mgwpt' /mowbed/). See Persian موبد (mowbed, mubed) for more. Doublet of մոգպետ (mogpet) and մուբիտան մուբիտ (mubitan mubit).
Noun
մովպետան մովպետ • (movpetan movpet)
- (Zoroastrianism) mobadan mobad (chief of the clergy)
Related terms
- մոգ (mog)
- պետ (pet)
Descendants
- → Armenian: մովպետան մովպետ (movpetan movpet)
Further reading
- Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “մոգ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
- Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “մովպետան մովպետ”, 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 195
- Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “մովպետան մովպետ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy