Old Armenian

Alternative forms

• ճրագլոյց ‎(čragloycʿ)

Noun

ճրագալոյց • ‎(čragaloycʿ)

1. lighting of candles or lamps

   ճրագալոյց առնել‎ ― čragaloycʿ aṙnel ― to light a candle

2. lighted candle
3. (Christianity) the eve of Christmas, Epiphany and Easter (on which occasion numerous candles and lamps are lit in churches)
4. (post-classical) public illumination

Declension

Descendants

• Armenian: ճրագալույց ‎(čragaluycʿ)

References

• Sebastacʿi, Mxitʿar (1749), “ճրագալոյց”, in Baṙgirkʿ Haykazean lezui [Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 598
• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “ճրագալոյց”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1837), “ճրագալոյց”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 187a
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1837), “ճրագալոյց”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 937c
• Łazarean, Ṙ. S. (2000), “ճրագալոյց”, in Tʿosunean G. B., editor, Grabari baṙaran [Dictionary of Old Armenian] (in Armenian), volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 133