տատասկ

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Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian տատասկ (tatask). Doublet of տատաշ (tataš).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

տատասկ (tatask)

  1. thistle

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Old Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Probably from a reduplicated Iranian cognate of Middle Persian 𐫤𐫢𐫐 (tšk /⁠tašk⁠/, thistles), which is likely from Proto-Iranian *tṛška-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (dry).[1] Note the Middle Armenian and dialectal forms with a -շ- (-š-).

Noun[edit]

տատասկ (tatask)

  1. puncture vine, caltrop, Tribulus terrestris
    • 6th–12th? centuries, Baṙkʻ Gałianosi [The Greek–Armenian Dictionary to Galen] :[2]
      տիրբոլոս (vars. տիրիսփողոս, տրիոքողու, տիրոբողոս, տրիսբողոս) = տատասկ (vars. տատակ, տատասկն)
      tirbolos (vars. tirispʻołos, triokʻołu, tirobołos, trisbołos) = tatask (vars. tatak, tataskn)
      τρίβολος (tríbolos) = tatask
    • 9th or 10th century, with changes and additions in later centuries, Tʻargmanutʻiwn dełocʻ zor əntrel en imastasērkʻn ew kargeal yayl lezuacʻ [A Medieval Arabic–Armenian Botanical Dictionary] :[5]
      ասաքոհիճ = եւ կուտք տատասկ (var. տատասկք)
      asakʻohič = ew kutkʻ tatask (var. tataskkʻ)
      الشَكُوهَج (aš-šakūhaj)[3][4] = seed of tatask
  2. iron-thistle, instrument of torture

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Asatrian, Garnik, Hakobian, Gohar (2018) “On *-d- > -l- and *-š- > -l- in Western New Iranian”, in Iran and the Caucasus[1], volume 22, number 3, →DOI, page 302
  2. ^ Greppin, John A. C. (1985) Baṙkʿ Gaɫianosi: The Greek–Armenian Dictionary to Galen[2], Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, page 108
  3. ^ Ibn el-Beïthar (1881) Lucien Leclerc, editor, Traité des simples (Notices et Extraits des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale et Autres Bibliothèques; 25) (in French), volume 2, Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, § 1337, page 341
  4. ^ Maimonides (1940) Max Meyerhof, editor, Sharḥ asmāʾ al-ʿuqqār : L'explication des noms de drogues : Un glossaire de matière médicale de Maïmonide (in French), Cairo: Impr. de l'Institut française d'archéologie orientale, § 151, pages 74–75
  5. ^ Greppin, John A. C. (1997) A Medieval Arabic–Armenian Botanical Dictionary (Studien zur armenischen Geschichte; 16), a separate print of Greppin 1995, Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, § 15, page 26

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