абард

Abkhaz

Etymology

Ačaṙean derives from Armenian; compare Middle Armenian բարտի (barti, “poplar”). But more immediately probably borrowed from a Kartvelian language; compare Proto-Kartvelian *bard- (“undergrowth, brush, bushes”).

Noun

а-ба́рд • (ā-bā́rd)

  1. thorny undergrowth, brush, bushes

References
  • Genko, A. N. (1998), “абард”, in Abxazsko-russkij slovarʹ [Abkhaz–Russian Dictionary], Sukhum: Alashara, page 49b
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “բարտի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 430b
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