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սատփիլ

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Old Armenian

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Etymology

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Unknown. Found only in a medieval Arabic–Armenian botanical dictionary. Both the Arabic term and its Armenian translation are unclear. Greppin tentatively identifies the Arabic with أَسْقْلِيفِيَاس (ʔasqlīfiyās) (Ancient Greek ἀσκληπιάς (asklēpiás))[1] and the Armenian with սատիլ (satil).

Noun

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սատփիլ (satpʻil)

  1. The meaning of this term is uncertain.
    • 9th or 10th century, with changes and additions in later centuries, Tʻargmanutʻiwn dełocʻ zor əntrel en imastasērkʻn ew kargeal yayl lezuacʻ [A Medieval Arabic–Armenian Botanical Dictionary] :[2]
      ասլունաթար = սատփիլ (var. աստփիլ)
      aslunatʻar = satpʻil (var. astpʻil)

References

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  1. ^ Ibn el-Beïthar (1877) Lucien Leclerc, editor, Traité des simples (Notices et Extraits des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale et Autres Bibliothèques; 23) (in French), volume I, Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, § 66, page 64
  2. ^ Greppin, John A. C. (1997) A Medieval Arabic–Armenian Botanical Dictionary (Studien zur armenischen Geschichte; 16), a separate print of Greppin 1995, Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, § 19, page 27

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