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-պան

-պան

See also: պան

Armenian

Alternative forms

Suffix

-պան (-pan)

  1. holder, keeper; protector
    այգիaygi ― garden
    այգեպանaygepan ― gardener

Declension

Derived terms

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Old Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Iranian -pān (-keeper). Compare Middle Persian pʾn' (-bān, -keeper, -guard), Persian بان (-bān, -keeper). Found in many Iranian borrowings: բարապան (barapan), պաշտպան (paštpan), դաստապան (dastapan), etc. See also -պանակ (-panak).

Suffix

-պան (-pan)

  1. holder, keeper; protector
    պարտէզpartēz ― garden
    պարտիզպանpartizpan ― gardener

Declension

Derived terms

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Descendants

References

  • J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1998), -(ա)պան”, in Hin hayereni verǰacancʿneri cagumə [The Origin of Old Armenian Suffixes] (Hayocʿ lezvi hamematakan kʿerakanutʿyan harcʿer; 2) (in Armenian), Yerevan: Anania Širakacʿi, pages 5–48