փոս

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Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Armenian փոս (pʻos).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

փոս (pʻos)

  1. hole, pit, hollow

Declension[edit]

Old Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Byzantine Greek φόσσα (phóssa), from Latin fossa.

Noun[edit]

փոս (pʻos)

  1. furrow, trench; ditch; hollow; channel
    փոս(ս) հատանել, գործել, փորելpʻos(s) hatanel, gorcel, pʻorelto dig a ditch, to ditch, to trench
    փոս հատանել քաղաքինpʻos hatanel kʻałakʻinto intrench, to circumvallate

Declension[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Armenian: փոս (pʻos)
  • Georgian: ფოსო (poso)

Further reading[edit]

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “փոս”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “փոս”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 387
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 652–653
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “փոս”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy