բարբուզան

Middle Armenian

Alternative forms

բարբիւզակ (barbiwzak), բարբիւզնակ (barbiwznak), բարբուզնա (barbuzna), բարբուզնօ (barbuznō)

Etymology

Recorded in several dialects referring to a kind of wild blue flower similar to iris.

Ališan and following him Ačaṙyan consider this a borrowing from the synonymous Arabic جَرْبُوز (jarbūz), يَرْبُوز (yarbūz), supposedly mistakenly read as *بَرْبُوز (*barbūz).^[1]^[2] However, such a bookish derivation is unlikely for a term used in the dialects. More likely an Iranian borrowing: compare Pashto بربوزک (barbuzák, “Allium oreoprasum”).^[3]

Noun

բարբուզան • (barbuzan)

leafy goosefoot, Blitum virgatum^[4]
- 1614 – 1622, Asar Sebastacʻi, Girkʻ bžškakan arhesti [Book of Medical Art]:^[5]
  Բարբուզանաւ, որ է վլիտոն և ինքն ծիմելն է։
  Barbuzanaw, or ē vliton ew inkʻn cimeln ē.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

Armenian: բարբուզնակ (barbuznak), բարբյուզակ (barbyuzak), բարբյուզնակ (barbyuznak), պարպյուզնակ (parpyuznak), պորպզնակ (porpznak), պարպըզնակը ծաղիքյ (parpəznakə caġikʻy) (dialectal)

References

^ Ališan, Ġewond (1895) “Ծիմել”, in Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʻiwn [Armenian Botany] (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 1195, page 272
^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բարբիւզակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 420–421
^ Mkrtčʻyan, Nerses (2004) “Banasirakan čšgrtumner ew lracʻumner [Philological Corrections and Additions]”, in Patma-banasirakan handes [Historical-Philological Journal]‎^[1] (in Armenian), number 3, pages 180–181
^ Asar Sebastacʻi (1993) Girkʻ bžškakan arhesti (XVI—XVII dd.) [Book of Medical Art (16–17th cc.)]‎^[2], preparation of the text, preface and dictionary by D. M. Karapetyan, Yerevan: Academy Press, page 331
^ Asar Sebastacʻi (1993) Girkʻ bžškakan arhesti (XVI—XVII dd.) [Book of Medical Art (16–17th cc.)]‎^[3], preparation of the text, preface and dictionary by D. M. Karapetyan, Yerevan: Academy Press, page 239

Ališan, Ġewond (1895) “բարբուզան”, in Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʻiwn [Armenian Botany] (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 315, page 85
Ġazaryan, Ṙuben (1981) “հիրիկ”, in Busanunneri hayeren-latineren-ṙuseren-angleren-franseren-germaneren baṙaran [Armenian–Latin–Russian–English–French–German Dictionary of Plant Names], Yerevan: University Press, § 699, page 57
Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2001), “բարբյուզակ”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 168b

[1] Ališan, Ġewond (1895) “Ծիմել”, in Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʻiwn [Armenian Botany] (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 1195, page 272

[2] Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բարբիւզակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 420–421

[3] Mkrtčʻyan, Nerses (2004) “Banasirakan čšgrtumner ew lracʻumner [Philological Corrections and Additions]”, in Patma-banasirakan handes [Historical-Philological Journal]‎^[1] (in Armenian), number 3, pages 180–181

[4] Asar Sebastacʻi (1993) Girkʻ bžškakan arhesti (XVI—XVII dd.) [Book of Medical Art (16–17th cc.)]‎^[2], preparation of the text, preface and dictionary by D. M. Karapetyan, Yerevan: Academy Press, page 331

[5] Asar Sebastacʻi (1993) Girkʻ bžškakan arhesti (XVI—XVII dd.) [Book of Medical Art (16–17th cc.)]‎^[3], preparation of the text, preface and dictionary by D. M. Karapetyan, Yerevan: Academy Press, page 239

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