մաղապ

Old Armenian

Alternative forms

• մաղադ (maład) — manuscript variant

Etymology

From Arabic مَلاب (malāb, “a species of aromatic”).

Noun

մաղապ • (małap)

1. a kind of flower in Arabia Felix
   • 7th century, Anania Širakacʻi, Ašxarhacʻoycʻ [Geography]

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “մաղապ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 237b
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, pages 269–270