լազանի
Old Armenian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Attested only in a work of Thomas Aquinas translated into Armenian in the 14th century. Transliterated from synonymous Medieval Latin lazani, which is also spelled lanzani.
Noun
[edit]լազանի • (lazani)
- a kind of ferocious small animal which is feared even by the lion
- 14th century, Thomas Aquinas, Girkʻ aṙakʻinutʻeancʻ [Book of Virtues] :[1]
- [առիւծն] երկնչի ի փոքր կենդանւոյն ումեմնէ, որ կոչի լազանի, յորոյ գազանութենէ ոչ ոք կենդանի է անհոգ
- [aṙiwcn] erknčʻi i pʻokʻr kendanwoyn umemnē, or kočʻi lazani, yoroy gazanutʻenē očʻ okʻ kendani ē anhog
- [առիւծն] երկնչի ի փոքր կենդանւոյն ումեմնէ, որ կոչի լազանի, յորոյ գազանութենէ ոչ ոք կենդանի է անհոգ
Further reading
[edit]- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “լազանի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 256b, not knowing the origin
- J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “լազանի”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 289b, not knowing the origin
- Anonymous disciples of Mxitʻar Sebastacʻi (1769) “լազանի”, in Baṙgirkʻ Haykazean lezui. Mnacʻordkʻ grabaṙ baṙicʻ haykazean lezui [Dictionary of the Armenian Language. The Remainder of Old Armenian Words][2] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 158a
- Thomson, R. W. (1995) A Bibliography of Classical Armenian Literature to 1500 AD (Corpus Christianorum), Turnhout: Brepols, page 40