սնդուկ

Armenian

Etymology

From Middle Armenian սնտուկ (sntuk), from Old Armenian սնդուկ (snduk), from Arabic صُنْدُوق (ṣundūq).

Pronunciation

Noun

սնդուկ • (snduk)

  1. chest, trunk, box, safe (for clothes, money, gold, jewelry, treasure etc.)
    • ca. 1680–1684, Baṙ girg taliani [An Armenian–Italian Dictionary published in Venice] page 54:[1]
      սնտուկ․ քասսայ
      sntuk; kʻassay
      սնտուկ (sntuk) = cassa
  2. (Western Armenian) treasury

Declension

Alternative forms

References

  1. 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 242
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