տատասկ

Armenian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian տատասկ (tatask). Doublet of տատաշ (tataš).

Pronunciation

Noun

տատասկ • (tatask)

  1. thistle

Declension

Old Armenian

Etymology

Probably from a reduplicated Iranian cognate of Middle Persian 𐫤𐫢𐫐 (tšk /⁠tašk⁠/, thistles), which is likely from Proto-Iranian *tṛška-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (dry).[1] Note the Middle Armenian and dialectal forms with a -շ- (-š-).

Noun

տատասկ • (tatask)

  1. puncture vine, caltrop, Tribulus terrestris
    • 6th–12th? centuries, Baṙkʻ Gałianosi [The Greek–Armenian Dictionary to Galen] :[2]
      տիրբոլոս (vars. տիրիսփողոս, տրիոքողու, տիրոբողոս, տրիսբողոս) = տատասկ (vars. տատակ, տատասկն)
      tirbolos (vars. tirispʻołos, triokʻołu, tirobołos, trisbołos) = tatask (vars. tatak, tataskn)
      τρίβολος (tríbolos) = tatask
    • 9th or 10th century, with changes and additions in later centuries, Tʻargmanutʻiwn dełocʻ zor əntrel en imastasērkʻn ew kargeal yayl lezuacʻ [A Medieval Arabic–Armenian Botanical Dictionary] :[3]
      ասաքոհիճ = եւ կուտք տատասկ (var. տատասկք)
      asakʻohič = ew kutkʻ tatask (var. tataskkʻ)
      الشَكُوهَج (aš-šakūhaj)[4][5] = seed of tatask
  2. iron-thistle, instrument of torture

Declension

Derived terms

  • տատասկաբեր (tataskaber)
  • տատասկածնունդ (tataskacnund)
  • տատասկանտառ (tataskantaṙ)
  • տատասկացան (tataskacʻan)
  • տատասկեալ (tataskeal)

Descendants

  • Middle Armenian: տատաշկ (tatašk), տատաշ (tataš)
    • Armenian: տատաշ (tataš)
    • Georgian: ტატაში (ṭaṭaši)
  • Armenian: տատասկ (tatask)

References

  1. Asatrian, Garnik, Hakobian, Gohar (2018) “On *-d- > -l- and *-š- > -l- in Western New Iranian”, in Iran and the Caucasus, volume 22, number 3, →DOI, page 302
  2. Greppin, John A. C. (1985) Baṙkʿ Gaɫianosi: The Greek–Armenian Dictionary to Galen, Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, page 108
  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, § 15, page 26
  4. Ibn el-Beïthar (1881) Lucien Leclerc, editor, Traité des simples (Notices et Extraits des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale et Autres Bibliothèques; 25) (in French), volume 2, Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, § 1337, page 341
  5. Maimonides (1940) Max Meyerhof, editor, Sharḥ asmāʾ al-ʿuqqār : L'explication des noms de drogues : Un glossaire de matière médicale de Maïmonide (in French), Cairo: Impr. de l'Institut française d'archéologie orientale, § 151, pages 74–75

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