Armenian

Alternative forms

Noun

բանջար • ‎(banǰar)

1. edible greens, vegetable
2. (dialectal) the name of various plants

Declension

Derived terms

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “բանջար”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935, page 409ab

Old Armenian

Etymology

The origin is unknown.

The related terms in Georgian, Turkish and Kurdish Ačaṙean considers to be borrowed from Armenian.

Noun

բանջար • ‎(banǰar)

1. vegetable, greens, herb
2. (post-classical) beet

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Armenian: բանջար ‎(banǰar)
  • → Azeri: pencər
  • → Northern Kurdish: п’ьнщар’ ‎(p’incar’), pincar, پنجار ‎(pinjar), panjâr
  • → Ottoman Turkish: بنجر ‎(bencer), پانجار ‎(pancar), پنجر ‎(pencer), پنجار ‎(pencar)
    • Turkish: pancar, pencer, pençer, perpencer
    • → Greek: παντζάρι ‎(pantzári)
• → Old Georgian: ბანჯარა ‎(banǯara), ბანჯარი ‎(banǯari)

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “բանջար”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935, page 409ab
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836), “բանջար”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 437b
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010), “բանջար”, in Sargsyan, Vahan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, ISBN 978-9939-50-121-5, pages 117–118
• Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 935
• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “բանջար”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 91b