բասար
Middle Armenian
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]բասար • (basar)
- sense, reason, wisdom
- 16th century, Grigoris Ałtʻamarcʻi, Tałer [Poems] [1][2]:
- Թէ զիմ ըզգաստութիւնըս հարցանես դու,
Չունիմ խելք ու բասար ՚ւ ոչ իմաստութիւն- Tʻē zim əzgastutʻiwnəs harcʻanes du,
Čʻunim xelkʻ u basar ’w očʻ imastutʻiwn
- Translation by S. Peter Cowe
- If you ask about my sobriety,
I have neither sense, nor vision, nor wisdom.
- If you ask about my sobriety,
- Tʻē zim əzgastutʻiwnəs harcʻanes du,
- Թէ զիմ ըզգաստութիւնըս հարցանես դու,
References
[edit]- ^ Cowe, S. Peter (2019) “The object of Ałtʿamarʿci’s affections”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15), Leuven: Peeters, page 78
- ^ Avdalbegyan, Mayis (1963) Grigoris Aġtʻamarcʻi : XVI d. : Usumnasirutʻyun, kʻnnakan bnagrer ew canotʻagrutʻyunner [Grigoris Aġtʻamarcʻi : 16th c. : Study, critical text, and annotations] (Miǰnadaryan hay taġerguner; 6)[1], Yerevan: Academy Press, page 234
Further reading
[edit]- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բասար”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 415a
- Ġazaryan, Ṙuben, Avetisyan, Henrik (2009) “բասար”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 110b