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 (štrpašankʿ), which is a scribal error for շտրպաղանգք pl (štrpałangkʿ).

Noun

շտրպաղանգ • (štrpałang)

  1. giraffe
    • c. 600 CE – c. 670 CE, Anania Širakacʿi, Ašxarhacʿoycʿ [Geography] :
      Լինի անդ ընձուղտք, Պարսիկք կոչեն շտրպաշանք։
      Lini and ənjułtkʿ, Parsikkʿ kočʿen štrpašankʿ.
      Here [in India] are found giraffes, which the Persians call strpašankʿ.
    Synonym: ընձուղտ (ənjułt)

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