դհունաղհունար

Old Armenian

Alternative forms

հունաղհունար (hunałhunar)

Etymology

From Arabic دُهْن الْحِنَّاء (duhn al-ḥinnāʔ, “henna oil”).

Noun

դհունաղհունար • (dhunałhunar)

a kind of Arabic plant oil
- 7th century, Anania Širakacʿi, Ašxarhacʿoycʿ [Geography]

Further reading

Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “դհունաղհունար”, 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 673b
Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, pages 269–270

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