վիպասան

Armenian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Armenian վիպասան (vipasan).

Pronunciation

Noun

վիպասան • (vipasan)

  1. novelist
  2. storyteller, bard, composer or reciter of stories or epics (especially in ancient and medieval Armenia)

Declension

Old Armenian

Etymology

Usually considered an inner-Armenian formation as վէպ (vēp) + ասեմ (asem) + -ան (-an), but Asatryan argues for a possibility of borrowing from Middle Iranian *vēp(a)sān, from Old Iranian *waipa-sāhana-; for the first part see վէպ (vēp), for the second գովասան (govasan) and 𐫃𐫇𐫘𐫀𐫗 (gwsʾn).

Noun

վիպասան • (vipasan)

  1. storyteller, narrator of ancient stories, vipasan
  2. historian

Declension

Adjective

վիպասան • (vipasan)

  1. of or pertaining to վիպասան (vipasan)

Declension

Descendants

  • Armenian: վիպասան (vipasan)

References

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “վիպասան”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “վիպասան”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “վէպ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 336a
  • 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
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