զերտևա

Armenian

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Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish زردوا (zerdeva).

Noun

զերտևա • (zertewa) (dialectal, obsolete)

1. pine marten, Martes martes (animal and its fur)

   Synonym: անտառային կզաքիս (antaṙayin kzakʻis)

   Hypernym: կզաքիս (kzakʻis)

   • ca. 1680–1684, Baṙ girg taliani [An Armenian–Italian Dictionary published in Venice] page 19:

     զէրտավայ․ մառթօռէ

     zērtavay; maṙtʻōṙē

     զէրտավայ (zērtavay) = martora

Alternative forms

• զերտավա (zertava), զերտա (zerta)
• զէրտէվա (zērtēva), զէրտէվայ (zērtēvay), զերտավայ (zertavay), զերտայ (zertay) — traditional orthography

Further reading

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “զերտայ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 93a