շտրպաղանգ
Old Armenian
Etymology
An Iranian borrowing: compare Middle Persian [script needed] (ʾwštlgʾwplng /uštar-gāw-palang/), Persian شترگاوپلنگ (šotorgâvpalang, “giraffe”).
Attested only in Ašxarhacʿoycʿ as շտրպաշանք pl (štrpašankʿ), which is a scribal error for շտրպաղանգք pl (štrpałangkʿ).
Noun
շտրպաղանգ • (štrpałang)
- giraffe
- Synonym: ընձուղտ (ənjułt)
- 7th century, Anania Širakacʿi, Ašxarhacʿoycʿ [Geography] :
- Լինի անդ ընձուղտք, Պարսիկք կոչեն շտրպաշանք։
- Lini and ənjułtkʿ, Parsikkʿ kočʿen štrpašankʿ.
- Here [in India] are found giraffes, which the Persians call strpašankʿ.
- Լինի անդ ընձուղտք, Պարսիկք կոչեն շտրպաշանք։
Further reading
- Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), “շտրպաղանգ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 544b
- Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 215
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