կարապ

Armenian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian կարապ (karap)

Pronunciation

Noun

կարապ • (karap)

  1. swan

Declension

Old Armenian

Alternative forms

  • կարափ (karapʻ)
  • կապար (kapar), կարապն (karapn) variant readings

Etymology

Usually considered a word of unknown origin,[1][2][3] but most likely an Iranian borrowing and literally meaning "the singing bird": compare Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬞𐬀𐬥 (karapan, anti-Zoroastrian priest, incantator?), Khwarezmian [script needed] (krb-, to moan, mumble, babble), Sanskrit कृपते (kṛpate, to lament, mourn).[4][5] For the sense development compare swan song and the derivation of swan from *swenh₂- (to sound).

Noun

կարապ • (karap)

  1. swan
    Synonyms: պոր (por), փոր (pʻor), կիկնոս (kiknos)
    • 5th century, Bible, Leviticus 11.18:[6]
      [] եւ սոխակ եւ հաւալուսն եւ կարապ (var. կապար, կարափ, կարապն) []
      [] ew soxak ew hawalusn ew karap (var. kapar, karapʻ, karapn) []
      [] and the nightingale, and the pelican, and the swan []

Usage notes

In Leviticus, translates Ancient Greek κύκνος (kúknos).

Declension

Descendants

  • Armenian: կարապ (karap) (learned)
  • Georgian: კარაპი (ḳaraṗi)

References

  1. Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “կարապ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 545ab
  2. Greppin, John A. C. (1978) Classical and Middle Armenian bird names: A linguistic, taxonomic, and mythological study, Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, page 27
  3. Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 939
  4. Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 65a
  5. Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 241, without the Armenian
  6. Zēytʻunean A. S., editor (1993), Girkʻ Łewtacʻwocʻ [Book of Leviticus] (Hay hnaguyn tʻargmanakan hušarjanner; 4), Antelias: Holy See of Cilicia, critical text, page 85

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