կուղբ

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian կուղբ (kułb), Middle Armenian կուղբ (kuġb).

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• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [kuʁb]
• (Western Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [ɡuχpʰ]

կուղբ • (kuġb)

1. beaver

• ջրշուն (ǰršun)

From Old Armenian կուղբ (kułb).

կուղբ • (kuġb) (genitive singular կղբու)

1. beaver
   • 1184, Mxitʻar Heracʻi, J̌ermancʻ mxitʻarutʻiwn [Relief of Fevers] :

     […] աֆթիմոն երեք դրամ. կղբու ձու մի դրամ […]

     […] aftʻimon erekʻ dram. kġbu ju mi dram […]

   • 12–13th century, Mxitʻar Goš, Aṙakkʻ [Fables] :

     Մեղադիր եղեն ոմանք կղբու, եթէ զիա՞րդ ի ջուր յաճախ դեգերիս […]

     Meġadir eġen omankʻ kġbu, etʻē zia^?rd i ǰur yačax degeris […]

   • 12–13th century, Vardan Aygekcʻi, Žołovacʻoykʻ aṙakacʻ Vardanay [Collections of Fables of Vardan] [1]

• կղբուձու (kġbuju)

• Armenian: կուղբ (kuġb)

• Ġazaryan, Ṙ. S., Avetisyan, H. M. (2009) “կուղբ”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 385b
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836) “կուղբ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 1122b

According to Ačaṙean, borrowed from Classical Syriac ܟܠܒܐ (kalbā, “dog”), more precisely from its dialectal form with an -u- vowel. For the semantics compare Armenian ջրշուն (ǰršun, “beaver”, literally “water-dog”), Middle Persian [script needed] (sag ī ābīg, “beaver”, literally “water-dog”) (whence Persian سگ آبی (sag-e âbi)), Old Irish doburchú (“otter”, literally “water-dog”).

կուղբ • (kułb)

1. beaver

   Synonym: կասդորիոս (kasdorios)

   • 5th century, with changes and additions in later centuries, Baroyaxōs [Physiologus] 26.1.[1]:

     Է երէ ինչ, որ կոչի կասդորիոս, որ թարգմանի կուղբ․ հանդարտ եւ յոյժ զգաւն է երէն։

     Ē erē inčʻ, or kočʻi kasdorios, or tʻargmani kułb; handart ew yoyž zgawn ē erēn.

     • Translation by Gohar Muradyan

       There is an animal called castor, which is translated beaver; the animal is quite and very gentle.

   • 6th–12th? centuries, Baṙkʻ Gałianosi [The Greek–Armenian Dictionary to Galen] :

     καστόριον· կղբու ձու

     καστόριον· kłbu ju

     καστόριον = testicle of a beaver

• գուղբ (guġb) — variant reading

• կղբուձու (kłbuju)

• Middle Armenian: կուղբ (kuġb)
  • Armenian: կուղբ (kuġb)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “կուղբ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 657ab
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836) “կուղբ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 1122b
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “կուղբ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 358b
• Gabamačean, Simon (1910) “կուղբ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hayerēn Lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Constantinople: R. Sakayan press, page 743b
• Greppin, John A. C. (1985) Baṙkʿ Gaɫianosi: The Greek–Armenian Dictionary to Galen‎, Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, page 54