շտրպաղանգ

Old Armenian

Etymology

An Iranian borrowing: compare Middle Persian [script needed] (ʾwštlgʾwplng /⁠uštar-gāw-palang⁠/), Persian شترگاوپلنگ (šotorgâvpalang, “giraffe”).

Attested only in Ašxarhacʿoycʿ as շտրպաշանք pl (štrpašankʻ), which is a scribal error for շտրպաղանգք pl (štrpałangkʻ).

Noun

շտրպաղանգ • (štrpałang)

1. giraffe

   Synonym: ընձուղտ (ənjułt)

   • 7th century, Anania Širakacʻi, Ašxarhacʻoycʻ [Geography] :

     Լինի անդ ընձուղտք, Պարսիկք կոչեն շտրպաշանք։

     Lini and ənjułtkʻ, Parsikkʻ kočʻen štrpašankʻ.

     Here [in India] are found giraffes, which the Persians call strpašankʿ.

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “շտրպաղանգ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 544b
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 215