վառոդ

Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

According to Ačaṙyan, a reshaping of բարութ (barutʻ) by a popular etymology as վառ (vaṙ, burning) + օդ (ōd, air).[1] Spelled վարօդ (varōd), վառօդ (vaṙōd) in HHB (1769),[2] վառօթ (vaṙōtʻ) in Girkʻ hrašicʻ (1772)[3] and վարօդ (varōd) in Banali gitutʻean (1788).[4][5]

Pronunciation

Noun

վառոդ • (vaṙod)

  1. gunpowder

Usage notes

Colloquially Russian по́рох (pórox) is often used instead.

Declension

References

  1. Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “բարութ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  2. Ananean, Mkrtičʻ (1769) “պարութ”, in Baṙgirkʻ Haykazean lezui. Baṙgirkʻ yašxarhabaṙē i grabaṙn [Dictionary of the Armenian Language. Dictionary from New Armenian into Old Armenian] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 537a
  3. https://books.google.am/books?id=48I-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA587
  4. Sarafean, Kġēopatra (1788) Banali gitutʻean [Key of Knowledge] (overall work in Armenian and Russian), Saint Petersburg: Grigor Khaldariants press, page 201
  5. Sarafean, Kġēopatra (1788) Banali gitutʻean [Key of Knowledge] (overall work in Armenian and Russian), Saint Petersburg: Grigor Khaldariants press, page 38
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