դամբուլ

Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Not attested in Old or Middle Armenian, but in view of the Karabakh form with տա̈- (tä-) exhibiting Adjarian's law, the word is old. Related to Talysh дамбүл (dambül), Udi дамбул (dambul), дампӏул (damṗul), dialectal Avar дамбу́ли (dambúli), dialectal Lezgi дамбул (dambul), Budukh тӏомбул (tʼombul), Khinalug тӏумбол (ṭumbol, plum) and Middle Armenian դամոն (damon, damson plum).

Further probably related to Sanskrit जम्बुल (jambula), *जम्बून (jambūna), जम्बु (jambu, jambul, Java plum), and their Indo-Aryan descendants, on which see Turner, without the Armenian or Caucasian words.[1][2]

The ultimate origin is uncertain.

Pronunciation

Noun

դամբուլ • (dambul) (dialectal)

  1. a fine variety of plum, which is large, sourish and dark red or yellow in color
    Synonym: սալոր (salor)
    • ca. 1680–1684, Baṙ girg taliani [An Armenian–Italian Dictionary published in Venice] page 58:[3]
      տամպուլ․ միրա[պ]օլանօ
      tampul; mira[p]ōlanō
      տամպուլ (tampul) = mirabolano
  2. (figuratively, colloquial) an inept person

Declension

References

  1. Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “jambula”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 283
  2. Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “jambāla1”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 283
  3. 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 244

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “դամբուլ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, pages 264–265
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “դամոն”, 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 618b
  • Asatrjan, G. (1988) “Суффиксальный элемент -l- и некоторые вопросы фоносемантики в армянском языке [The Suffixal Element -l- and Some Problems of Phonosemantics in the Armenian Language]”, in Patma-banasirakan handes [Historical-Philological Journal] (in Russian), number 2, Yerevan: Academy Press, page 167 of 160–178, explaining as a native sound-symbolic formation for a soft object
  • Chirikba, Viacheslav V. (2006) “Abkhaz Loans in Megrelian”, in Iran and the Caucasus, volume 10, number 1, pages 52–53
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 167
  • Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*ṭŭmhV ( ~ *ṭwĭ-,-ħ-)”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers, proposing a native Northeast Caucasian origin for the Caucasian words
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2001), “դամբուլ”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 304a
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