ասորի

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Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Armenian ասորի (asori).

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ասորի (asori)

  1. Syriac, Syrian (member of an ethnoreligious grouping indigenous to Syria and Mesopotamia, practicing various forms of Syriac Christianity and speaking Neo-Aramaic languages, historically also Classical Syriac; now variously self-identifying as Syriac, Aramean, Chaldean or Assyrian)

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  • Russian: айсо́р (ajsór)

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Further reading[edit]

  • Nierszesovicz, Deodatus (1695) “assiriacus”, in Dictionarium Latino-Armenum [Latin–Armenian Dictionary], Rome: Typographia Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, page 47a
  • Rivola, Francesco (1633) “ասորի”, in Baṙagirkʻ hayocʻ [Dictionarium Armeno-Latinum]‎[3], 2nd edition, first published in 1621 in Milan, Paris: Impensis Societatis Typographicae Librorum Officii Ecclesiastici, page 34, translated as assyrius, seu syrus
  • Villotte, Jacques (1714) “assyrius”, in Dictionarium Novum Latino-Armenium [New Latin–Armenian Dictionary]‎[4], Rome: Typographia Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, page 70a

Old Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Iranian:[1][2] compare Parthian 𐭀𐭎𐭅𐭓 (ʾswr /⁠Āsōr⁠/). Ultimately from Akkadian 𒀸𒋩𒆠 (Aššūr),

Noun[edit]

ասորի (asori)

  1. Syriac, Syrian (member of an ethnoreligious grouping indigenous to Syria and Mesopotamia, practicing Syriac Christianity and speaking Classical Syriac)
    • 5th century, Bible, Genesis 22.21:[3]
      զՈվքս զանդրանիկն նորա եւ զԲաւ զեղբայր նորա եւ զԿամուէլ հայր Ասորւոց
      zOvkʻs zandranikn nora ew zBaw zełbayr nora ew zKamuēl hayr Asorwocʻ
      • Translation by Brenton Septuagint Translation
        Uz the first-born, and Baux his brother, and Camuel the father of the Syrians

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  1. ^ Bailey, H. W. (1930) “Iranica”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society[1], volume 11, number 1, page 19 of 1–5
  2. ^ Bailey, H. W. (1987) “Armenia and Iran IV. Iranian influences in Armenian 2. Iranian loanwords in Armenian”, in Ehsan Yarshater, editor, Encyclopædia Iranica[2], volume 2, London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, page 465b of 459–465
  3. ^ Zeytʻunyan A. S., editor (1985), Girkʻ cnndocʻ [Book of Genesis] (Hay hnaguyn tʻargmanakan hušarjanner; 1), Yerevan: Academy Press, critical text, pages 240–241

Further reading[edit]

  • Anonymous disciples of Mxitʻar Sebastacʻi (1769) “Ասորիք”, in Baṙgirkʻ Haykazean lezui. Baṙaran yatuk anuancʻ [Dictionary of the Armenian Language. Dictionary of Proper Names]‎[5] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy