Armeniann.adj.

Brit.

/ɑːˈmiːnɪən/, U.S.

/ɑrˈminiən/

Forms: 1500s Armenyan, 1500s– Armenian.

Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Armenia , -an suffix.

Etymology: < Armenia, the name of a country east of Asia Minor ( < classical Latin Armenia and its etymon ancient Greek Ἀρμενία : see note) + -an suffix. Compare Middle French Armenien (noun) inhabitant of Armenia (a1498 or earlier), (adjective) of or relating to Armenia (1578 or earlier; French Arménien ). Compare also ancient Greek Ἀρμένιος , classical Latin Armenius (adjective) of Armenia, (noun) inhabitant of Armenia, and post-classical Latin Armenus , adjective and noun (6th cent.). Compare earlier Armeniac adj.The classical name is of uncertain origin and apparently borrowed from a language of the Near East; the earliest attested form is Old Persian Armina (6th cent. bc; compare the derivative Arminiya- (adjective) of Armenia > Elamite Harminuyaip (plural noun) Armenians, used in bilingual inscriptions to correspond to the Old Persian place name). The Armenian name for the modern country is Hayastan ( < hay ‘Armenian’ + -a- connective + Persian -stān , forming names of regions or countries: see -stan comb. form); compare classical Armenian hayk' (plural of hay ), also used to denote the country. The place name Armenia is attested in English contexts from the Old English period onwards, in Middle English also as Armenie , Armonie , etc. (compare Middle French, French Arménie (second half of the 14th cent.)). Compare Old English (plural) Armenie , attested as an ethnonym and also as a place name in the Old English translation of Orosius Hist. With use as adjective (compare sense B. 1) compare Old English Armenisc ( < the name of Armenia + -ish suffix¹) in an apparently isolated attestation.

A. n.

1. A native or inhabitant of Armenia; a person of Armenian descent.The present-day Republic of Armenia lies between Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, and Turkey. A geographical region named Armenia dates back to the late 6th century b.c. At its greatest extent (96–65 b.c.) the Kingdom of Armenia extended from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean. In early modern times, eastern Armenia came under the control of Iran, and later of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union, regaining independence in 1990, while western Armenia came under the control of the Ottoman Empire and is now part of Turkey. During the 13th and 14th centuries an Armenian kingdom existed in Cilicia.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > native or inhabitant of Russia, the Russian Empire, or the Soviet Union > [noun] > states or provinces

Albanianc1400

Georgian?a1425

Armenian?1520

Moldave1552

Permian1555

Anatolian1588

Podolian1603

Lithuanian1607

Livonian1652

Zemblan1674

Zemblian1674

Siberian1719

Kurile1764

Crimean1768

Ukrainera1815

Ukrainian1823

Bessarabian1835

Sibiriak1903

Latvian1941

?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth xii. f. xvii The Medeans, Perseans, and Armenyans [L. Armenii] arriued with theyr shyppes in that coost of Affrike, which was nerest to the empire of Rome.

1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xiii. viii. 189 The Armenians [L. Armenii] being doubtfull, and faithfull to neither side.

1623 H. Rogers Answer to Mr. Fisher 3 We exclude not others: whether Grecians, Armenians, Aethiopians, Spaniards, or Italians.

1680 J. P. tr. Longinus Treat. Loftiness Elegancy Speech Pref. We expect aid from the Persians, the Sarasens will take up Arms for us, the Armenians will succour us.

1730 P. Chamberlen tr. M. A. P. de Gomez Persian Anecd. 69 Ismael and Tor..inform'd the Armenian of their Birth and Misfortunes.

1780 Indian Adventurer ix. 221 Nothing was left undone by me to divert the Radjah and his fair Armenian.

1827 J. Avdall tr. M. Chamich Hist. Armenia II. vii. xviii. 422 He was met by a deputation of the most considerable Armenians in the city.

1879 J. Hingston Austral. Abroad 135 The most agreeable of our number were the two Armenians, polite and intelligent men, who talked English as if born to it.

1905 H. James in N. Amer. Rev. Dec. 804 ‘I'm an Armenian,’ he replied, as if it were the most natural thing in the world for a wage-earning youth in the heart of New England to be.

1970 D. M. Lang Armenia i. 39 Many of the neighbours of the Armenians in antiquity have vanished from the map, like the Hittites.

2003 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 Nov. 37/4 There had been violence between Armenians and Azerbaijanis in 1905, at the time of the first revolution against the Tsardom.

2. A member of the Armenian Church, an independent Christian church established in c300 in Armenia following the conversion of King Tiridates III by St Gregory the Illuminator.The earliest national Christian church, the Armenian Church, along with the Coptic, Ethiopian, and Syrian Churches, is one of the Oriental Orthodox Churches, distinguished from the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches by their rejection of the Christological teaching of the Definition of Chalcedon.In some cases probably simply a contextual use of sense A. 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > sect > Christianity > Greek Orthodoxy > [noun] > person > Armenian

Azymite1728

Armenian1875

1537 tr. Original & Sprynge All Sectes xiiii. f. 49 They [sc. Christians] are euer at debate with the armenians, whom they call heretikes.

1579 J. Fielde tr. P. de Mornay Notable Treat. Church iii. sig. D.iiii^v I demaund what they wil aunswere vnto the Greeke Churches, the Armenians [Fr. Eglises Grecques, Armeniennes]..&c. founded by the Apostles, & as olde as the Church of Rome, yea and elder too.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. iv. i. i. 719 Those Nestorians, Iacobines, Syrians, Armenians, Georgians, &c. scattered ouer Asia minor.

1678 T. Tenison Of Idolatry x. 184 Under the second Commandment he placeth..the Armenians, the Papists, and some others, as notorious violaters of it.

1730 tr. Acct. Rise & Present State of Inquisitions 7 The Greeks and Armenians have free exercise of their Religion allow'd 'em.

1787 Berwick Museum III. 559/1 A sort of poll tax, paid by all those whom the mussulmen call Giaurs, or infidels, such as the Roman Catholics, the Greek church, the Armenians, and Jews.

1841 W. Burder Relig. Ceremonies & Customs iii. i. 179 The Armenians believe, that neither the souls nor the bodies of any saints or prophets, departed this life, are in heaven.

1875 F. H. A. Scrivener 6 Lect. Text New Test. 106 The Armenians of the orthodox faith.

a1906 H. Rix Tent & Test. (1907) xxxi. 193 Only Greeks and Armenians worship here, the Latins have a chapel of their own.

2008 R. Cohen Saving Holy Sepulchre xiii. 212 On the morning of Easter Sunday, 1975, a fight between Copts and Armenians broke out at the back of the rotunda.

3. The Indo-European language spoken in Armenia, parts of Turkey, the Caucasus, and the Middle East, and by communities of Armenian descent elsewhere.Armenian forms a distinct branch of the Indo-European language family, and has two main dialect groups, Eastern and Western Armenian.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Armenian

Armenian1615

1615 E. Grimeston tr. P. d'Avity Estates 1052 The Iacobites celebrat in the Chaldean tongue, and speake Arabian, Turkish, and Armenian [Fr. Armenien].

1677 J. Phillips tr. J.-B. Tavernier Persian Trav. iv. vi. 159 in tr. J.-B. Tavernier Six Voy. (1678) As for their Women, they speak nothing but the Armenian, as having no converse with strangers.

1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 16 Mar. (1965) I. 390 In Pera they speak Turkish, Greek, Hebrew, Armenian, Arabic, Persian, Russian [etc.].

1757 Compend. Most Approved Mod. Trav. II. 245 Most of the Armenians can speak Armenian.

1817 Ld. Byron Let. 2 Jan. (1976) V. 156 Padre Paschal—with some little help from me..is also proceeding in an M.S. grammar for the English acquisition of Armenian—which will be printed also.

1847 E. Riggs (title) A vocabulary of words used in modern Armenian.

1910 Encycl. Brit. II. 571/2 Armenian lost its genders long before the year a.d. 400.

1989 J. P. Mallory In Search of Indo-Europeans ii. 33 Armenian is still spoken today by approximately five million people.

2014 Cornell Daily Sun (Ithaca, N.Y.) (Nexis) 25 Apr. 1 The program ended with recitation of poems, written in Armenian and Hebrew and translated into English.

B. adj.

1. Of or relating to Armenia, or to Armenians or their language.

ΚΠ

?1560 T. Norton Orations of Arsanes ii. sig. D.iiij The faction of the Armenian rebellion is extinquished.

1640 F. Knight Relation Seaven Yeares Slaverie i. 9 Mahomet Agga, a man of the Armenian nation.

1683 J. Morrison tr. J. J. Struys Perillous Voy. xiii. 186 The Silk they sold for a 3^d of the currant value, which was bought up of the Persian and Armenian Merchants.

1724 D. Defoe Fortunate Mistress 220 As soon as they had shewn their Georgian and Armenian Shapes, and danc'd, as I have said, three times, they withdrew.

1780 Indian Adventurer ix. 221 He introduced to me one of his Armenian women, who was extremely handsome.

1806 R. Heber Let. 3 Mar. in A. Heber Life R. Heber (1830) I. vi. 193 The jewels are brought here..by Armenian merchants.

1892 F. C. Conybeare Collation Anc. Armenian Versions of Greek Text of Aristotle's Categories p. xxix In few Armenian manuscripts are the words accentuated with so much care and fulness.

1918 B. S. Papazian Trag. Armenia v. 98 The trades and the liberal professions were in Armenian hands.

1978 N. Balakian in W. T. Zyla & W. M. Aycock Ethnic Literatures since 1776 I. 51 There are bits and pieces of evidence that individual Armenian adventurers came to the British colony.

2014 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 2 May 16 The 99th anniversary of the Armenian genocide was marked at the Hebrew University last week.

2. Designating, relating to, or belonging to the Armenian Church (see sense A. 2).

ΚΠ

1583 W. Fulke Briefe Confut. Cauils Papistes 6 in Def. Transl. Script. They will alledge the submission of any Patriarkes or Prelates of the Aethiopian or Armenian churches made to the Pope.

a1613 E. Brerewood Enq. Langs. & Relig. (1614) xxiiii. 172 Such at this present is the state of the Armenian Church.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 126 Our Ambassadour..died..we obtained a Dormitory for his Body among the Armenian Christians.

1686 W. Wake Def. Expos. Doctr. 78 The Grecian, Armenian, Abbassine Churches..have..differed from the Church of Rome.

1730 P. Chamberlen tr. M. A. P. de Gomez Persian Anecd. 69 An Armenian Priest..begg'd them to repose some Confidence in him.

1792 F. V. Vernon Voy. & Trav. of Sea Officer xiv. 163 The Christian natives, of the Greek or Armenian church.

1826 New Monthly Mag. 16 474 An Armenian mass, with all its ‘tintinabulism’, and nasal singing, and ‘incondite music’.

1860 All Year Round 15 Sept. 537 Leaving the Armenian patriarchate, you perceive, in a narrow lane to the right, the remnant of an old wall.

1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands iii. 97 The great Armenian Convent at Venice.

1926 Travel Nov. 26/2 Saed Mahmoud, with the inherent hate of the Moslem for the Armenian Christian, intrigued against him.

1957 F. L. Cross Oxf. Dict. Christian Church 881/1 The Mechitarists..use the Armenian liturgy.

2006 Church Times 29 Sept. 28/3 This may properly be identified as a shurjar, an Armenian eucharistic vestment, more shawl than cope.

Compounds

Armenian bole n. now chiefly historical a kind of earthy clay originating in Armenia and typically coloured red by the presence of iron oxide, formerly used as a pigment, in tooth powders and other preparations, and medicinally; = bole armeniac n. at bole n.² 1b. [After post-classical Latin bolus armenus (15th cent. or earlier; also bolus armenius (7th cent. as armenia bolos (translating Byzantine Greek Ἀρμενία βῶλος ); < bolus bolus n. + classical Latin Armēnius of or relating to Armenia: see Armenian n. and adj.)); compare Middle French, French bol Arménien (1566); compare earlier bole armeniac n. at bole n.² 1b and Armeniac adj. 1.]

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > red or leached soil

red eartheOE

red landc1250

minium1613

Armenian bole1621

red loam1707

red soil1817

terra rossa1882

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > mineral medicine > [noun] > medicinal earths

terra sigillata1398

bole armeniac?a1425

sealed earth1526

Lemnian earth1611

Terra Lemnia1613

Armenian bole1621

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > antidote > [noun] > other antidotes > mineral

terra sigillata1398

bole armeniac?a1425

sealed earth1526

Lemnian earth1611

Terra Lemnia1613

Armenian bole1621

1621 D. Widdowes tr. W. A. Scribonius Nat. Philos. 31 Bole Armenian [L. bolus Armenus] is earth of Armenia, it is of a pale red coullour, smooth, and easie to breake as chalke.

1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iii. §iii. iii. 349 Armenian Bole... Both of a deep and a pale Red. Very soft, and easily rub'd to powder.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Armenian Bole is..frequently prescribed against diarrhœas.

1832 Fraser's Mag. 6 714 The best toothpowder in the world is Armenian bole.

2006 J. Henderson Renaissance Hosp. ix. 308 He [sc. Albertus Magnus] recommended Armenian bole and red sandalwood.

Armenian cucumber n. a variety of melon, Cucumis melo var. flexuosus, whose green-skinned, very elongated and often curled or bent fruit is deeply ridged lengthwise and has pale, mild-tasting flesh which is used like that of the cucumber.This melon may have originated in Armenia but is more widely cultivated as a vegetable elsewhere, esp. in the Middle East and North America.

ΚΠ

1954 Organic Gardening & Farming June 81/1 The Armenian cucumber is fine eating.

2004 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 7 Oct. 2 This one is also called Armenian cucumber or snake melon, for the way it coils when vines grow on the ground. If you want straight fruits, the vines must be trellised.

2013 J. Nolan From Ground Up x. 127 He would chomp excitedly into raw vegetables still gritty with dirt, and he loved in particular the long, striped, funny-shaped Armenian cucumbers.

Armenian stone n. now historical a blue mineral substance consisting principally of azurite (basic copper carbonate), formerly used in pigments and medicines. [After post-classical Latin lapis armenius (1551 or earlier) and lapis armenus (1523 or earlier; compare also post-classical Latin lapis armenicus (14th cent. in a British source), lapis armeniacus (1534 or earlier), and Hellenistic Greek λίθος Ἀρμενιακός, λίθος Ἀρμενικός); compare also French pierre d'Arménie (1553 or earlier), pierre arménienne (1579 or earlier).]

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > carbonates > [noun] > azurite

Armenian stone1580

lapis Armenus1651

blue copper1728

blue malachite1728

armenite1823

chessylite1852

azurite1868

1580 T. Newton Approoued Med. f. 85 (heading) Lapis Armenius, The Armenian stone.

1727 E. Strother tr. P. Hermann Materia Medica II. 229 It [sc. lapis lazuli] is dug out of the Mines, and approaches in Virtues to the Armenian Stone, because it moves both upwards and downwards, but the Armenian Stone is preferable.

2012 E. Lev & L. Chipman Med. Prescriptions Cambr. Genizah Coll. iii. 58 (note) The pills are composed of hiera, sandalwood, agaric, birthwort, Armenian stone, lapis lazuli [etc.].

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	armenian
释义	Armeniann.adj. Brit. /ɑːˈmiːnɪən/, U.S. /ɑrˈminiən/ Forms: 1500s Armenyan, 1500s– Armenian. Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Armenia , -an suffix. Etymology: < Armenia, the name of a country east of Asia Minor ( < classical Latin Armenia and its etymon ancient Greek Ἀρμενία : see note) + -an suffix. Compare Middle French Armenien (noun) inhabitant of Armenia (a1498 or earlier), (adjective) of or relating to Armenia (1578 or earlier; French Arménien ). Compare also ancient Greek Ἀρμένιος , classical Latin Armenius (adjective) of Armenia, (noun) inhabitant of Armenia, and post-classical Latin Armenus , adjective and noun (6th cent.). Compare earlier Armeniac adj.The classical name is of uncertain origin and apparently borrowed from a language of the Near East; the earliest attested form is Old Persian Armina (6th cent. bc; compare the derivative Arminiya- (adjective) of Armenia > Elamite Harminuyaip (plural noun) Armenians, used in bilingual inscriptions to correspond to the Old Persian place name). The Armenian name for the modern country is Hayastan ( < hay ‘Armenian’ + -a- connective + Persian -stān , forming names of regions or countries: see -stan comb. form); compare classical Armenian hayk' (plural of hay ), also used to denote the country. The place name Armenia is attested in English contexts from the Old English period onwards, in Middle English also as Armenie , Armonie , etc. (compare Middle French, French Arménie (second half of the 14th cent.)). Compare Old English (plural) Armenie , attested as an ethnonym and also as a place name in the Old English translation of Orosius Hist. With use as adjective (compare sense B. 1) compare Old English Armenisc ( < the name of Armenia + -ish suffix¹) in an apparently isolated attestation. A. n. 1. A native or inhabitant of Armenia; a person of Armenian descent.The present-day Republic of Armenia lies between Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, and Turkey. A geographical region named Armenia dates back to the late 6th century b.c. At its greatest extent (96–65 b.c.) the Kingdom of Armenia extended from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean. In early modern times, eastern Armenia came under the control of Iran, and later of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union, regaining independence in 1990, while western Armenia came under the control of the Ottoman Empire and is now part of Turkey. During the 13th and 14th centuries an Armenian kingdom existed in Cilicia. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > native or inhabitant of Russia, the Russian Empire, or the Soviet Union > [noun] > states or provinces Albanianc1400 Georgian?a1425 Armenian?1520 Moldave1552 Permian1555 Anatolian1588 Podolian1603 Lithuanian1607 Livonian1652 Zemblan1674 Zemblian1674 Siberian1719 Kurile1764 Crimean1768 Ukrainera1815 Ukrainian1823 Bessarabian1835 Sibiriak1903 Latvian1941 ?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth xii. f. xvii The Medeans, Perseans, and Armenyans [L. Armenii] arriued with theyr shyppes in that coost of Affrike, which was nerest to the empire of Rome. 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xiii. viii. 189 The Armenians [L. Armenii] being doubtfull, and faithfull to neither side. 1623 H. Rogers Answer to Mr. Fisher 3 We exclude not others: whether Grecians, Armenians, Aethiopians, Spaniards, or Italians. 1680 J. P. tr. Longinus Treat. Loftiness Elegancy Speech Pref. We expect aid from the Persians, the Sarasens will take up Arms for us, the Armenians will succour us. 1730 P. Chamberlen tr. M. A. P. de Gomez Persian Anecd. 69 Ismael and Tor..inform'd the Armenian of their Birth and Misfortunes. 1780 Indian Adventurer ix. 221 Nothing was left undone by me to divert the Radjah and his fair Armenian. 1827 J. Avdall tr. M. Chamich Hist. Armenia II. vii. xviii. 422 He was met by a deputation of the most considerable Armenians in the city. 1879 J. Hingston Austral. Abroad 135 The most agreeable of our number were the two Armenians, polite and intelligent men, who talked English as if born to it. 1905 H. James in N. Amer. Rev. Dec. 804 ‘I'm an Armenian,’ he replied, as if it were the most natural thing in the world for a wage-earning youth in the heart of New England to be. 1970 D. M. Lang Armenia i. 39 Many of the neighbours of the Armenians in antiquity have vanished from the map, like the Hittites. 2003 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 Nov. 37/4 There had been violence between Armenians and Azerbaijanis in 1905, at the time of the first revolution against the Tsardom. 2. A member of the Armenian Church, an independent Christian church established in c300 in Armenia following the conversion of King Tiridates III by St Gregory the Illuminator.The earliest national Christian church, the Armenian Church, along with the Coptic, Ethiopian, and Syrian Churches, is one of the Oriental Orthodox Churches, distinguished from the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches by their rejection of the Christological teaching of the Definition of Chalcedon.In some cases probably simply a contextual use of sense A. 1. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Greek Orthodoxy > [noun] > person > Armenian Azymite1728 Armenian1875 1537 tr. Original & Sprynge All Sectes xiiii. f. 49 They [sc. Christians] are euer at debate with the armenians, whom they call heretikes. 1579 J. Fielde tr. P. de Mornay Notable Treat. Church iii. sig. D.iiii^v I demaund what they wil aunswere vnto the Greeke Churches, the Armenians [Fr. Eglises Grecques, Armeniennes]..&c. founded by the Apostles, & as olde as the Church of Rome, yea and elder too. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. iv. i. i. 719 Those Nestorians, Iacobines, Syrians, Armenians, Georgians, &c. scattered ouer Asia minor. 1678 T. Tenison Of Idolatry x. 184 Under the second Commandment he placeth..the Armenians, the Papists, and some others, as notorious violaters of it. 1730 tr. Acct. Rise & Present State of Inquisitions 7 The Greeks and Armenians have free exercise of their Religion allow'd 'em. 1787 Berwick Museum III. 559/1 A sort of poll tax, paid by all those whom the mussulmen call Giaurs, or infidels, such as the Roman Catholics, the Greek church, the Armenians, and Jews. 1841 W. Burder Relig. Ceremonies & Customs iii. i. 179 The Armenians believe, that neither the souls nor the bodies of any saints or prophets, departed this life, are in heaven. 1875 F. H. A. Scrivener 6 Lect. Text New Test. 106 The Armenians of the orthodox faith. a1906 H. Rix Tent & Test. (1907) xxxi. 193 Only Greeks and Armenians worship here, the Latins have a chapel of their own. 2008 R. Cohen Saving Holy Sepulchre xiii. 212 On the morning of Easter Sunday, 1975, a fight between Copts and Armenians broke out at the back of the rotunda. 3. The Indo-European language spoken in Armenia, parts of Turkey, the Caucasus, and the Middle East, and by communities of Armenian descent elsewhere.Armenian forms a distinct branch of the Indo-European language family, and has two main dialect groups, Eastern and Western Armenian. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Armenian Armenian1615 1615 E. Grimeston tr. P. d'Avity Estates 1052 The Iacobites celebrat in the Chaldean tongue, and speake Arabian, Turkish, and Armenian [Fr. Armenien]. 1677 J. Phillips tr. J.-B. Tavernier Persian Trav. iv. vi. 159 in tr. J.-B. Tavernier Six Voy. (1678) As for their Women, they speak nothing but the Armenian, as having no converse with strangers. 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 16 Mar. (1965) I. 390 In Pera they speak Turkish, Greek, Hebrew, Armenian, Arabic, Persian, Russian [etc.]. 1757 Compend. Most Approved Mod. Trav. II. 245 Most of the Armenians can speak Armenian. 1817 Ld. Byron Let. 2 Jan. (1976) V. 156 Padre Paschal—with some little help from me..is also proceeding in an M.S. grammar for the English acquisition of Armenian—which will be printed also. 1847 E. Riggs (title) A vocabulary of words used in modern Armenian. 1910 Encycl. Brit. II. 571/2 Armenian lost its genders long before the year a.d. 400. 1989 J. P. Mallory In Search of Indo-Europeans ii. 33 Armenian is still spoken today by approximately five million people. 2014 Cornell Daily Sun (Ithaca, N.Y.) (Nexis) 25 Apr. 1 The program ended with recitation of poems, written in Armenian and Hebrew and translated into English. B. adj. 1. Of or relating to Armenia, or to Armenians or their language. ΚΠ ?1560 T. Norton Orations of Arsanes ii. sig. D.iiij The faction of the Armenian rebellion is extinquished. 1640 F. Knight Relation Seaven Yeares Slaverie i. 9 Mahomet Agga, a man of the Armenian nation. 1683 J. Morrison tr. J. J. Struys Perillous Voy. xiii. 186 The Silk they sold for a 3^d of the currant value, which was bought up of the Persian and Armenian Merchants. 1724 D. Defoe Fortunate Mistress 220 As soon as they had shewn their Georgian and Armenian Shapes, and danc'd, as I have said, three times, they withdrew. 1780 Indian Adventurer ix. 221 He introduced to me one of his Armenian women, who was extremely handsome. 1806 R. Heber Let. 3 Mar. in A. Heber Life R. Heber (1830) I. vi. 193 The jewels are brought here..by Armenian merchants. 1892 F. C. Conybeare Collation Anc. Armenian Versions of Greek Text of Aristotle's Categories p. xxix In few Armenian manuscripts are the words accentuated with so much care and fulness. 1918 B. S. Papazian Trag. Armenia v. 98 The trades and the liberal professions were in Armenian hands. 1978 N. Balakian in W. T. Zyla & W. M. Aycock Ethnic Literatures since 1776 I. 51 There are bits and pieces of evidence that individual Armenian adventurers came to the British colony. 2014 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 2 May 16 The 99th anniversary of the Armenian genocide was marked at the Hebrew University last week. 2. Designating, relating to, or belonging to the Armenian Church (see sense A. 2). ΚΠ 1583 W. Fulke Briefe Confut. Cauils Papistes 6 in Def. Transl. Script. They will alledge the submission of any Patriarkes or Prelates of the Aethiopian or Armenian churches made to the Pope. a1613 E. Brerewood Enq. Langs. & Relig. (1614) xxiiii. 172 Such at this present is the state of the Armenian Church. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 126 Our Ambassadour..died..we obtained a Dormitory for his Body among the Armenian Christians. 1686 W. Wake Def. Expos. Doctr. 78 The Grecian, Armenian, Abbassine Churches..have..differed from the Church of Rome. 1730 P. Chamberlen tr. M. A. P. de Gomez Persian Anecd. 69 An Armenian Priest..begg'd them to repose some Confidence in him. 1792 F. V. Vernon Voy. & Trav. of Sea Officer xiv. 163 The Christian natives, of the Greek or Armenian church. 1826 New Monthly Mag. 16 474 An Armenian mass, with all its ‘tintinabulism’, and nasal singing, and ‘incondite music’. 1860 All Year Round 15 Sept. 537 Leaving the Armenian patriarchate, you perceive, in a narrow lane to the right, the remnant of an old wall. 1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands iii. 97 The great Armenian Convent at Venice. 1926 Travel Nov. 26/2 Saed Mahmoud, with the inherent hate of the Moslem for the Armenian Christian, intrigued against him. 1957 F. L. Cross Oxf. Dict. Christian Church 881/1 The Mechitarists..use the Armenian liturgy. 2006 Church Times 29 Sept. 28/3 This may properly be identified as a shurjar, an Armenian eucharistic vestment, more shawl than cope. Compounds Armenian bole n. now chiefly historical a kind of earthy clay originating in Armenia and typically coloured red by the presence of iron oxide, formerly used as a pigment, in tooth powders and other preparations, and medicinally; = bole armeniac n. at bole n.² 1b. [After post-classical Latin bolus armenus (15th cent. or earlier; also bolus armenius (7th cent. as armenia bolos (translating Byzantine Greek Ἀρμενία βῶλος ); < bolus bolus n. + classical Latin Armēnius of or relating to Armenia: see Armenian n. and adj.)); compare Middle French, French bol Arménien (1566); compare earlier bole armeniac n. at bole n.² 1b and Armeniac adj. 1.] ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > red or leached soil red eartheOE red landc1250 minium1613 Armenian bole1621 red loam1707 red soil1817 terra rossa1882 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > mineral medicine > [noun] > medicinal earths terra sigillata1398 bole armeniac?a1425 sealed earth1526 Lemnian earth1611 Terra Lemnia1613 Armenian bole1621 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > antidote > [noun] > other antidotes > mineral terra sigillata1398 bole armeniac?a1425 sealed earth1526 Lemnian earth1611 Terra Lemnia1613 Armenian bole1621 1621 D. Widdowes tr. W. A. Scribonius Nat. Philos. 31 Bole Armenian [L. bolus Armenus] is earth of Armenia, it is of a pale red coullour, smooth, and easie to breake as chalke. 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iii. §iii. iii. 349 Armenian Bole... Both of a deep and a pale Red. Very soft, and easily rub'd to powder. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Armenian Bole is..frequently prescribed against diarrhœas. 1832 Fraser's Mag. 6 714 The best toothpowder in the world is Armenian bole. 2006 J. Henderson Renaissance Hosp. ix. 308 He [sc. Albertus Magnus] recommended Armenian bole and red sandalwood. Armenian cucumber n. a variety of melon, Cucumis melo var. flexuosus, whose green-skinned, very elongated and often curled or bent fruit is deeply ridged lengthwise and has pale, mild-tasting flesh which is used like that of the cucumber.This melon may have originated in Armenia but is more widely cultivated as a vegetable elsewhere, esp. in the Middle East and North America. ΚΠ 1954 Organic Gardening & Farming June 81/1 The Armenian cucumber is fine eating. 2004 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 7 Oct. 2 This one is also called Armenian cucumber or snake melon, for the way it coils when vines grow on the ground. If you want straight fruits, the vines must be trellised. 2013 J. Nolan From Ground Up x. 127 He would chomp excitedly into raw vegetables still gritty with dirt, and he loved in particular the long, striped, funny-shaped Armenian cucumbers. Armenian stone n. now historical a blue mineral substance consisting principally of azurite (basic copper carbonate), formerly used in pigments and medicines. [After post-classical Latin lapis armenius (1551 or earlier) and lapis armenus (1523 or earlier; compare also post-classical Latin lapis armenicus (14th cent. in a British source), lapis armeniacus (1534 or earlier), and Hellenistic Greek λίθος Ἀρμενιακός, λίθος Ἀρμενικός); compare also French pierre d'Arménie (1553 or earlier), pierre arménienne (1579 or earlier).] ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > carbonates > [noun] > azurite Armenian stone1580 lapis Armenus1651 blue copper1728 blue malachite1728 armenite1823 chessylite1852 azurite1868 1580 T. Newton Approoued Med. f. 85 (heading) Lapis Armenius, The Armenian stone. 1727 E. Strother tr. P. Hermann Materia Medica II. 229 It [sc. lapis lazuli] is dug out of the Mines, and approaches in Virtues to the Armenian Stone, because it moves both upwards and downwards, but the Armenian Stone is preferable. 2012 E. Lev & L. Chipman Med. Prescriptions Cambr. Genizah Coll. iii. 58 (note) The pills are composed of hiera, sandalwood, agaric, birthwort, Armenian stone, lapis lazuli [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.?1520
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