բրդոռ

Middle Armenian

Etymology

From բուրդ (burd) +‎ ոռ (oṙ), literally “with woolly buttocks”.

Noun

բրդոռ • (brdoṙ) (hapax legomenon)

  1. lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus)
    • 13th century, Yovhannēs Vanakan Vardapet Tawušecʻi, Harcʻmunkʻ ew patasxanikʻ [Questions and Answers]:[1]
      Այլ հաւ կայ, բրդոռ ասեն, որ զայն ձագն [ընկեցեալ յարծուոյ] առնու և սնուցանէ
      Ayl haw kay, brdoṙ asen, or zayn jagn [ənkecʻeal yarcuoy] aṙnu ew snucʻanē
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Usage notes

The identification with lammergeier is based on the described behaviour of the bird. Has alternatively been identified with Ancient Greek πύγαργος (púgargos).

References

  1. ^ Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836) “բրդոռ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 518b

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բուրդ”, 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, page 489a
  • Ġazaryan, Ṙuben, Avetisyan, Henrik (2009) “բրդոռ”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 128a
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 192
  • Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (2000) “բրդու[sic]”, 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 120
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