դոն

• դօն (dōn) — traditional orthography

Inherited from Middle Armenian դոն (don).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /don/, [don]
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /ton/, [tʰon]

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դոն • (don)

1. (dialectal) kind of longish bread

• դոնիկ (donik)

• Amatuni, Sahak (1912) “դօն”, in Hayocʻ baṙ u ban [Armenian Words and Idioms] (in Armenian), Vagharshapat: Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin
• Malxaseancʻ, Stepʻan (1944–1945) “դօն”, in Hayerēn bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: State Publishing House

Uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰoHnéh₂, but a *դուն (*dun) was expected from it. Alternatively, somehow connected with Hittite [script needed] (dūni-), [script needed] (tunik, “kind of pastry”).

դոն • (don)

1. kind of bread
   • 14th century, Grigor Tatʻewacʻi, Meknutʻiwn Yohannu Awetaranin [Commentary on the Gospel of John]:^[1]

     Վասն դոնի
     Դարձեալ գիտելի է, որ ի վանորայս եփեն զհացն և կոչեն «դոն», այսինքն՝ դուն նուազ և փոքր ի ձև ձկան, և բեկել նկանակացն նմանեցուցեալ։

     Vasn doni
     Darjeal giteli ē, or i vanorays epʻen zhacʻn ew kočʻen “don”, aysinkʻn, dun nuaz ew pʻokʻr i jew jkan, ew bekel nkanakacʻn nmanecʻucʻeal.

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2. (transferred sense) an architectural ornament/detail, probably architrave

• Armenian: դոն (don)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “դոն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Ġazaryan, Ṙuben, Avetisyan, Henrik (2009) “դոն”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Hovhannisyan, L. Š. (2010) “դոն”, in Grabari baṙaran. Nor haykazyan baṙaranum čʻvkayvac baṙer [Dictionary of Old Armenian. Words Unattested in the New Haykazyan Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Edit Print, page 98
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 241
• Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (2000) “դոն”, 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
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “դոն”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate‎^[2], PhD dissertation, Leiden University, page 16