ասփուր

Middle Armenian

Alternative forms
  • ասպուր (aspur), ասպուռ (aspuṙ), ասֆուր (asfur), մասփուր (maspʻur), մասփար (maspʻar)

Etymology

From Arabic عُصْفُر (ʕuṣfur). The forms with an մ- (m-) are from the related مُعَصْفَر (muʕaṣfar, “safflower”).

Ačaṙyan records the given names Մասպուռ (Maspuṙ) [1628] and Մասփուր (Maspʻur) [1629] as alternative forms of Մասուր (Masur, literally “rosehip”),[1] but they are rather derived from this safflower word.

Noun

ասփուր • (aspʻur)

  1. safflower, Carthamus tinctorius
    Synonym: ղրտում (ġrtum)
    • 6th–12th? centuries, Baṙkʿ Gałianosi [The Greek–Armenian Dictionary to Galen] :[2]
      Կրտոմ (vars. կրտում, կտրոմ) = մասփարի (vars. մարփարի, մասփրի, կասփարի) հունդ ։
      Krtom (vars. krtum, ktrom) = maspʻari (vars. marpʻari, maspʻri, kaspʻari) hund .
      قُرْطُم (qurṭum) = seed of safflower
    • 9th or 10th century, with changes and additions in later centuries, Tʿargmanutʿiwn dełocʿ zor əntrel en imastasērkʿn ew kargeal yayl lezuacʿ [A Medieval Arabic–Armenian Botanical Dictionary] :[3]
      Ալոփալջիլ (var. ալոփալջրիկ) = մասփուրի հունդ։
      Alopʻalǰil (var. alopʻalǰrik) = maspʻuri hund.
      الْعُصْفُر (al-ʕuṣfur) = seed of safflower

References
  1. Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1946) “ասփուր”, in Hayocʻ anjnanunneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Personal Names of Armenians] (Erewani petakan hamalsaran. Gitakan ašxatutʻyunner; 25) (in Armenian), volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 217
  2. Greppin, John A. C. (1985) Baṙkʿ Gaɫianosi: The Greek–Armenian Dictionary to Galen‎, Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, page 132
  3. 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, § 9, page 21

Further reading
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “ասպուր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 276a
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “ասպուր”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ġazaryan, Ṙ. S., Avetisyan, H. M. (2009) “ասփուր”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (1884) “carthame”, in Baṙagirkʻ i gałłierēn lezuē i hayerēn [Dictionary from the French Language into Armenian]‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian Press, page 204a
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