հիրիկ

Armenian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian հիրիկ (hirik).

Pronunciation

Noun

հիրիկ • (hirik)

  1. iris (flower)

Declension

Old Armenian

Etymology

An Iranian borrowing: compare Middle Persian [script needed] (hylyk' /⁠hērīg⁠/, iris, wallflower), Persian هیری (hiri), خیری (xiri, wallflower). Related to Old Armenian հիր (hir) and Middle Armenian խիրի (xiri), խիր (xir).

Noun

հիրիկ • (hirik)

  1. iris (flower)
    • 5th century, Bible, Exodus 30.24:
      եւ հիրիկ հինգ հարեւր սիկղ ըստ սրբութեանն, եւ եւղ ի ձիթենեաց հիմենաւ միով
      ew hirik hing harewr sikł əst srbutʻeann, ew ewł i jitʻeneacʻ himenaw miov
    • 16th century, Grigoris Ałtʻamarcʻi, Tałer [Poems] :[1]
      Ի յեզր Փիսոն գետոյն
      Բուսանիս հիրիկ աննման,
      Դևքըն սասանին ի քէն
      Եւ լինին յոյժ հալածական։
      I yezr Pʻison getoyn
      Busanis hirik annman,
      Dewkʻən sasanin i kʻēn
      Ew linin yoyž halacakan.

Usage notes

In the Bible, translates Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris).

Descendants

  • Armenian: հիրիկ (hirik)

References

  1. Avdalbegyan, Mayis (1963) Grigoris Aġtʻamarcʻi : XVI d. : Usumnasirutʻyun, kʻnnakan bnagrer ew canotʻagrutʻyunner [Grigoris Aġtʻamarcʻi : 16th c. : Study, critical text, and annotations] (Miǰnadaryan hay taġerguner; 6), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 183

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “հիրիկ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, pages 97–98
  • Ališan, Ġewond (1895) “հիրիկ”, in Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʻiwn [Armenian Botany] (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 1692, pages 370–371
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1837) “հիրիկ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 100a
  • Considine, Patrick (1979) “A semantic approach to the identification of Iranian loanwords in Armenian”, in Bela Brogyanyi, editor, Studies in Diachronic, Synchronic, and Typological Linguistics: Festschrift for Oswald Szemérenyi on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory; 11), volume I, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pages 223–224
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, pages 351, 516
  • Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (2000) “հիրիկ”, in Martiros Minassian, editor, Baṙagirkʻ storin hayerēni i matenagrutʻeancʻ ŽA–ŽĒ darucʻ [Dictionary of Middle Armenian Based on the Literature of 11–17th Centuries], edited from the author's unfinished manuscript written 1884–1915, Geneva: Martiros Minassian, page 433
  • 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 457
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “հիրիկ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 406b
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