Old Armenian

Alternative forms

• յովբելեան ‎(yovbelean)
• յոբեղեան ‎(yobełean)
• յոբեղ ‎(yobeł)

Noun

յոբելեան • ‎(yobelean)

1. (Judaism) Jubilee (a year of rest, observed by the Israelites every 50 years)

   յոբելեան ամ‎ ― yobelean am ― year of Jubilee

   յոբելեան փող‎ ― yobelean pʿoł ― horn announcing the Jubilee

2. a period of fifty years
3. (Christianity) fifty days of Eastertide from Easter Sunday till Pentecost

Declension

Descendants

• Armenian: հոբելյան ‎(hobelyan)

References

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “յոբելեան”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “յոբելեան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935