մատեան

A Southwestern Iranian borrowing. Compare Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (mʾtgdʾn' /⁠mādayān⁠/, “book”), Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫖𐫀𐫅𐫏𐫀𐫗 (mʾdyʾn /⁠mādayān⁠/, “book, writing”). Old Georgian მატიანე (maṭiane), მატიანი (maṭiani) are from the same source, according to Ačaṙean borrowed via Armenian.

մատեան • (matean)

1. book; parchment, scroll, roll, register; code, manuscript

   աստուածային, աստուածաշունչ մատեանք ― astuacayin, astuacašunčʻ mateankʻ ― the Holy Scriptures, Holy Bible, Holy Writ

   մատենից դարան ― matenicʻ daran ― library

   ի մատենի հարկանել, տալ ― i mateni harkanel, tal ― to write, to set down or couch in writing, to register, to record

• → Armenian: մատյան (matyan) (learned)
• → Old Georgian: მატიანე (maṭiane), მატიანი (maṭiani)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “մատեան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “մատեան”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2004) “mʾdyʾn”, in A Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian (Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum; 3.1), Turnhout: Brepols, page 224a
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “mādayān”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 53
• Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 894
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “մատեան”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy