ծփի

Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Ulmus laevis

From ծփալ (cpʻal, to flutter) + (-i, botanical suffix). Calque of German Flatterulme, from flattern (to flutter). Probably coined by the Mekhitarists of Vienna, first appearing in Mēnēvišean's botany and hence copied into dictionaries.

Pronunciation

Noun

ծփի • (cpʻi) (rare)

  1. European white elm (Ulmus laevis, syn. Ulmus effusa)
    • 1897, Gabriēl Mēnēvišean, Patkerazard bnakan patmutʻiwn, B. Busabanutʻiwn [Illustrated Natural History: 2. Botany] :[1]
      Ծփին (Ulmus effusa) առաջինին շատ կը նմանի []
      Cpʻin (Ulmus effusa) aṙaǰinin šat kə nmani []
      The European white elm (Ulmus effusa) is very similar to the first one (Ulmus campestris) []
  2. (by extension) elm (any tree of the genus Ulmus)
    Synonym: թեղի (tʻeġi)

Usage notes

Initially referring only to the European white elm[2] (see the quote from Mēnēvišean), later is used imprecisely for the whole genus.[3][4]

Declension

References

  1. Mēnēvišean, Gabriēl (1897) Patkerazard bnakan patmutʻiwn, B. Busabanutʻiwn [Illustrated Natural History: 2. Botany] (in Armenian), Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 223
  2. Malxaseancʻ, Stepʻan (1944) “ծփի”, in Hayerēn bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume II, Yerevan: State Publishing House, page 358a
  3. Ġazaryan, Ṙ. S. (1981) “ծփի”, in Busanunneri hayeren-latineren-ṙuseren-angleren-franseren-germaneren baṙaran [Armenian–Latin–Russian–English–French–German Dictionary of Plant Names], Yerevan: University Press, § 367, page 33a
  4. Ayvazyan H. M. et al., editors (2006), “թեղի”, in Hayastani bnašxarh [Nature of Armenia] (Əntanekan hanragitaran matenašar; 3) (in Armenian), Yerevan: Armenian Encyclopaedia, page 247b

Further reading

  • ծփի”, in Žamanakakicʻ hayocʻ lezvi bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, 1972, page 714a
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