ալմաստ

Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Armenian ալմաստ (almast), ալմաս (almas), էլմաս (ēlmas).

Pronunciation

Noun

ալմաստ • (almast)

  1. diamond
    Synonym: ադամանդ (adamand)
    • ca. 1680–1684, Baṙ girg taliani [An Armenian–Italian Dictionary published in Venice] page 6:[1]
      ալմաս․ տիամանթէ
      almas; tiamantʻē
      ալմաս (almas) = diamante
  2. diamond glass cutter

Declension

References

  1. Orengo, Alessandro (2019) “Il ԲԱՌ ԳԻՐԳ ՏԱԼԻԱՆԻ Un dizionario armeno-italiano del XVII secolo”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15), Leuven: Peeters, page 215

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “ադամանդ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 80b
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “էլմաս”, in Tʻurkʻerēni azdecʻutʻiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʻurkʻerēnē pʻoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žoġovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʻeamb Vani, Ġarabaġi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 97
  • Nawasardeancʻ, Tigran (1903) “ալմաստ”, in Baṙgirkʻ Araratean barbaṙi [Dictionary of Ararat Dialect] (in Armenian), Tiflis: Movsēs Vardaneancʻ Press, page 6a
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2002), “էլմաս”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume II, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 12

Middle Armenian

Noun

ալմաստ • (almast)

  1. Alternative form of ալմաս (almas)

References

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