շինկղ

շինկղ

Middle Armenian

Etymology

Probably an Iranian borrowing: compare Persian شنگ‎ (šing, “a kind of cucumber”),[1] شنگيار‎ (šingyār, “a sort of cucumber”),[2] شين خيار‎ (šīn-xiyār, “a large cucumber kept for seed”)[3].

Noun

շինկղ • (šinkł)

1. a kind of large cucumber or melon

   Synonym: կօդայ (kōday)

   • 10th–13th centuries, Gagik-Hetʿumyan bžškaran [The Gagik–Hetoumian Medical Book] :[4]

     Շինկղ = կօդայ։

     Šinkł = kōday.

     Šinkł = կօդայ (kōday).

   • 9th or 10th century, with changes and additions in later centuries, Tʿargmanutʿiwn dełocʿ zor əntrel en imastasērkʿn ew kargeal yayl lezuacʿ [A Medieval Arabic–Armenian Botanical Dictionary] , (the meaning of the Arabic term is not certain, but it is far from cucumber or melon, therefore Greppin amends the Armenian to շառննաջ (šaṙnnaǰ, “wild pomegranate”); see § 126 for that term):[5]

     Աշնախիստ = վայրի շնկղի հունդ։

     Ašnaxist = vayri šnkłi hund.

     النَاغِشْت‎ (an-nāḡišt)[6][7][8] [ = նաղիժշտ (nałižšt)] = seed of wild šinkł

Derived terms

• իշաշինգղ (išašingł)

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), “շինգղ, շինկղ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 518b
• Ališan, Łewond (1895), “շինկղ, շինգղ”, in Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʿiwn [Armenian Botany] (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 2312, page 485
• Ališan, Łewond (1895), “վայրի շինկղ”, in Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʿiwn [Armenian Botany] (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 2313, page 486

• Norayr N. Biwzandacʿi (1884), “courge”, in Baṙagirkʿ i gałłierēn lezuē i hayerēn [Dictionary from the French Language into Armenian], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian Press, page 312b

References

1. Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “شنگ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 763
2. Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “شنگيار”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 763
3. Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “شين خيار”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 777
4. Norayr N. Biwzandacʿi (2000), “կօդայ”, in Martiros Minassian, editor, Baṙagirkʿ storin hayerēni i matenagrutʿeancʿ ŽA–ŽĒ darucʿ [Dictionary of Middle Armenian Based on the Literature of 11–17th Centuries], Geneva: Martiros Minassian, page 400
5. Greppin, John A. C. (1997) A Medieval Arabic–Armenian Botanical Dictionary (Studien zur armenischen Geschichte; 16), separate reprint of the Handes Amsorya 109 (1995), 380–457 edition, Vienna: Mechitarist Press, § 14, pages 24–25
6. Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “ناغِشت”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 631b
7. Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864), “ناغِشت”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume II, Bonn: Adolf Marcus, page 1280
8. Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “ناغشت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5105