վան

From Parthian *vān-, from Old Iranian *wāhana- (“habitation”), from Proto-Iranian *Hwah-; see there for more. The Old Iranian word is cognate with Sanskrit वसन (vasana, “dwelling, abiding, sojourn, residence”).

Probably not related to the city-name Վան (Van).

վան • (van)

1. lodging, dwelling, home, habitation, abode; house, mansion; cabin, hut

   վանս ունել ― vans unel ― to stay, to lodge, to take up one's lodgings, to dwell, to stop

2. hotel; inn, hostelry
3. monastery, convent, cloister, friary

   վանք կուսանաց ― vankʻ kusanacʻ ― nunnery, convent

   փակել ի վանս ― pʻakel i vans ― to cloister, to shut up in a convent

The word was usually used in the plural: վանք (vankʻ).

• աւան (awan), հարեւան (harewan)

• Armenian: վանք (vankʻ)
• Old Georgian: ვანი (vani)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “վանք”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “վան”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “վան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Асатрян, Г. С. (2013) “Парфянское gōsān [Parthian gōsān]”, in С. Р. Тохтасьев, П. Б. Лурье, editors, Commentationes Iranicae. Сборник статей к 90-летию Владимира Ароновича Лившица‎ (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Nestor-Istoriya, →ISBN, page 104 of 102–105

From the root of վանեմ (vanem).

վան • (van)

1. the act of repelling

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “վան”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “վան”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “վան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press