ասորի

Armenian

Etymology

From Old Armenian ասորի (asori).

Pronunciation

Noun

ասորի • (asori)

  1. Syriac, Syrian (member of an ethnoreligious grouping indigenous to Syria and Mesopotamia, practicing various forms of Syriac Christianity and speaking Neo-Aramaic languages, historically also Classical Syriac; now variously self-identifying as Syriac, Aramean, Chaldean or Assyrian)

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  • Russian: айсо́р (ajsór)

See also

Further reading

  • Nierszesovicz, Deodatus (1695) “assiriacus”, in Dictionarium Latino-Armenum [Latin–Armenian Dictionary], Rome: Typographia Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, page 47a
  • Rivola, Francesco (1633) “ասորի”, in Baṙagirkʻ hayocʻ [Dictionarium Armeno-Latinum], 2nd edition, first published in 1621 in Milan, Paris: Impensis Societatis Typographicae Librorum Officii Ecclesiastici, page 34, translated as assyrius, seu syrus
  • Villotte, Jacques (1714) “assyrius”, in Dictionarium Novum Latino-Armenium [New Latin–Armenian Dictionary], Rome: Typographia Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, page 70a

Old Armenian

Etymology

Borrowed from Iranian:[1][2] compare Parthian 𐭀𐭎𐭅𐭓 (ʾswr /⁠Āsōr⁠/). Ultimately from Akkadian 𒀸𒋩𒆠 (Aššūr),

Noun

ասորի • (asori)

  1. Syriac, Syrian (member of an ethnoreligious grouping indigenous to Syria and Mesopotamia, practicing Syriac Christianity and speaking Classical Syriac)
    • 5th century, Bible, Genesis 22.21:[3]
      զՈվքս զանդրանիկն նորա եւ զԲաւ զեղբայր նորա եւ զԿամուէլ հայր Ասորւոց
      zOvkʻs zandranikn nora ew zBaw zełbayr nora ew zKamuēl hayr Asorwocʻ
      • Translation by Brenton Septuagint Translation
        Uz the first-born, and Baux his brother, and Camuel the father of the Syrians

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References

  1. Bailey, H. W. (1930) “Iranica”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, volume 11, number 1, page 19 of 1–5
  2. Bailey, H. W. (1987) “Armenia and Iran IV. Iranian influences in Armenian 2. Iranian loanwords in Armenian”, in Ehsan Yarshater, editor, Encyclopædia Iranica, volume 2, London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, page 465b of 459–465
  3. Zeytʻunyan A. S., editor (1985), Girkʻ cnndocʻ [Book of Genesis] (Hay hnaguyn tʻargmanakan hušarjanner; 1), Yerevan: Academy Press, critical text, pages 240–241

Further reading

  • Anonymous disciples of Mxitʻar Sebastacʻi (1769) “Ասորիք”, in Baṙgirkʻ Haykazean lezui. Baṙaran yatuk anuancʻ [Dictionary of the Armenian Language. Dictionary of Proper Names] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
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