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սառն

սառն

Armenian

Alternative forms

  • սառ (saṙ) (colloquial)
  • սառը (saṙə) (before consonants)

Adjective

սառն (saṙn) (superlative ամենասառն)

  1. cold, cool
    սառը ջուրsaṙə ǰur ― cold water
    սառն աշունsaṙn ašun ― cold autumn
  2. (figuratively) unfriendly, cold

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Old Armenian

Alternative forms

  • սառ (saṙ) (dialectal)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱar-n, from *ḱer-, *ḱel- (to freeze, become cold). Cognate with Old Norse hjarn (hard frozen snow, frozen earth covered with snow); Lithuanian šerkšnas (rime, hoarfrost), Latvian sērsna (snow crust). Further cognate with Sanskrit शिशिर (śiśira, cold, coolness), Avestan [script needed] (sarəta-, cold), Middle Persian slt' (sard) (Persian سرد (sard, cold)), Middle Persian slmʾk' (sarmāg) (Persian سرما (sarmā, coldness)), Lithuanian šarmà (hoarfrost), Old Church Slavonic слана (slana, hoarfrost) and слота (slota, bad weather) and Old Norse héla (hoarfrost).

Noun

սառն (saṙn)

  1. ice
    հատոր սառանցhator saṙancʿ ― piece or block of ice
  2. glazed frost
  3. crystal

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Adjective

սառն (saṙn)

  1. cold, frozen

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References

  • Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), սառն”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), սառն”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), սառն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935
  • J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010), սառն”, in Sargsyan, Vahan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, ISBN 978-9939-50-121-5