մովպետան մովպետ
Old Armenian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Persian [script needed] (mgwptʾn' mgwpt' /mowbedān mowbed/, literally “mobad of mobads”), from [Book Pahlavi needed] (mgwpt' /mowbed/). See Persian موبد (mowbed, mubed) for more. Doublet of մոգպետ (mogpet) and մուբիտան մուբիտ (mubitan mubit).
Noun
[edit]մովպետան մովպետ • (movpetan movpet)
- (Zoroastrianism) mobadan mobad (chief of the clergy)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Armenian: մովպետան մովպետ (movpetan movpet)
Further reading
[edit]- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “մոգ”, 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) “մովպետան մովպետ”, 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 195
- Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “մովպետան մովպետ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy