գունդ

From Old Armenian գունդ (gund).

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [ɡund]

գունդ • (gund)

1. spherical object, sphere, ball, orb
2. (geometry) sphere

   գնդի ծավալը համեմատական է շառավղի խորանարդին ― gndi cavalə hamematakan ē šaṙavłi xoranardin ― the volume of the sphere is proportional to the cube of the radius

From Old Armenian գունդ (gund).

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [ɡund]

գունդ • (gund)

1. (military) regiment
2. (historical) troop, brigade, battalion (of soldiers)
3. (archaic) group, assemblage

From Middle Iranian *gund (“spherical object”); see Middle Persian gwnd (gund, “testicle”) for more.

• գունտ (gunt) (post-classical)
• կունտն (kuntn), կունտ (kunt), կունդն (kundn), կունդ (kund) (sense “wheel” only)

գունդ • (gund)

1. spherical object, sphere, globe

   գունդ փոքրիկ ― gund pʿokʿrik ― bullet; globule

   գունդ անուոյ ― gund anuoy ― nave of a wheel

   գունդ կշռոց ― gund kšṙocʿ ― weight

   գունդ կապարեայ ― gund kapareay ― lead

2. arch of heaven, vault
3. celestial body, heavenly body, orb
4. the spherical section of the lamp into which the oil is poured
5. sounding line, plummet

   չափել զծով գնտով ― čʿapʿel zcov gntov ― to sound

6. wheel
7. human head

• Armenian: գունդ (gund)
  • → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: [script needed] (kʿûndä, “lump of earth; nave of a wheel”)
  • → Azeri: kündə
  • → Udi: ҝуьндаь (gʲündä)
• → Georgian: გუნდა (gunda)

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “գունդ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “գունդ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “գունդ”, 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, pages 593–594
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “²gund”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 38
• Bartholomae, Christian (1904) Altiranisches Wörterbuch [Old Iranian Dictionary]‎ (in German), Strassburg: K. J. Trübner, column 525

From Middle Persian gwnd (gund, “army, troop; group, gathering”).

գունդ • (gund)

1. group, assemblage, troop (of bees, men, angels but especially of soldiers)
2. military theme, military province

   կողմն Վասպուրական գնդին ― kołmn Vaspurakan gndin ― Vaspurakan military province

• Armenian: գունդ (gund)
• Georgian: გუნდი (gundi)

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “գունդ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “գունդ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “գունդ”, 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, pages 594–595
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “¹gund”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 38