Enriched Dictionaries of Classical and Modern Armenian

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Classical Armenian — Modern Armenian — French — English

Proper Nouns — Synonyms — Etymology — NBHL — Conjugations — Declensions

65 430 entries — 155 000 examples — 400 sources


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Main Lexicons

  • Awetik‘ean Gabriēl, Siwrmēlean Xač‘atur, Awgerean Mkrtič‘, Նոր բառգիրք հայկազեան լեզուի (= New Dictionary of the Armenian Language), Venise, 1836-1837.
  • Bedrossian Matthias, New Dictionary Armenian-English, Venise, 1875.
  • Calfa Ambroise, Dictionnaire arménien-français, Paris, 1861.
  • J̌axǰaxean Manuēl, Dizionario armeno-italiano, Venise, 1837.

Additional Resources

  • (etymological) Ačaṙean Hrač‘eay, Հայերէն արմատական բառարան (= Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Language), Erevan, 1926.
  • (synonyms) Łazarean Ṙupēn, Գրաբարի հոմանիշների բառարան (= Dictionary of Classical Armenian Synonyms), Antélias, 2006.
  • Hübschmann Henrich, Armenische Grammatik, Leipzig, 1897.
  • Čōlagean Timit̕rios, (= New Dictionary from Armenian to Greek), Constantinople, 1868.
  • Miskgian Ioannes, Manuale lexicon armeno-latinum ad usum scholarum, Rome, 1887.
  • Rivola Francisco, Dictionarium armeno-latinum, 1633.
  • Bible, New and Old Testalent, Venice, 1805 (Zohrab edition).

To know more

Chahan Vidal-Gorène, Aliénor Decours-Perez, Baptiste Queuche, Agnès Ouzounian, and Thomas Riccioli, Digitalization and Enrichment of the Նոր Բառգիրք Հայկազեան Լեզուի: Work in Progress for Armenian Lexicography. In Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, Volume 27: Issue 2, pp. 224-244, 2021. Brill.
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Chahan Vidal-Gorène and Aliénor Decours-Perez, Languages Resources for Poorly Endowed Languages : The Case Study of Classical Armenian. In Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pp. 3145–3152, Marseille, France, May 2020. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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