արտևան

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Armenian

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Old Armenian արտեւան (artewan). Doublet of թըրփան (tʻərpʻan).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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արտևան (artewan)

  1. (dated) eyelash
  2. (dated, figuratively, poetic) top, summit

Declension

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References

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  • Aġayan, Ēduard (1976) “արտևան”, in Ardi hayereni bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Hayastan

Old Armenian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *drep-aneh₂ (sickle), by a popular and imaginative sense development due to the arched shape of the eyebrows. A close cognate of Ancient Greek δρεπάνη (drepánē).[1]

The sense “top, summit” is a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ὀφρύς (ophrús, eyebrow; brow of a hill).

Noun

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արտևան (artewan)

  1. eyelash (single) or eyebrow
  2. (figuratively) top, summit, the highest part of a mountain

Declension

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Armenian: արտեւան (artewan)

References

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  1. ^ Lamberterie, Charles de (2013) “Grec, phrygien, arménien : des anciens aux modernes”, in Journal des Savants (in French), number 1, page 22 of 3–69

Further reading

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