Armenian

Alternative forms

• թլիպ ‎(tʿlip)

Noun

թլիփ • ‎(tʿlipʿ)

1. end, extremity, tip (usually round one)
2. a narrow cloth band sewn unto the borders of the collar or fringes of the dress for durability
3. (anatomy) foreskin, prepuce
4. (dialectal) an arc of antimony drawn under the eyelashes
5. pod of fruits

Declension

Old Armenian

Etymology

The origin is uncertain. Based on the citation «թլիփ ածեալ (ծարրով) պաճուճեաց զանտառս արտեւանանց» some dictionaries wrongly explain the word as “decoration, ornament”. However, the original meaning must have been “border, hem (especially a round one)”. From the word թլփատեմ ‎(tʿlpʿatem, “to cut the foreskin round about, to circumcise”) post-classical authors falsely back-formed the sense of “privy parts; prepuce”.

Noun

թլիփ • ‎(tʿlipʿ)

1. a band sewn unto the borders of the collar or pockets for durability or as an ornament
2. an arc of antimony drawn under the eyelashes

   թլիփ ածեալ (ծարրով) պաճուճեաց զանտառս արտեւանանց‎ ― tʿlipʿ aceal (carrov) pačučeacʿ zantaṙs artewanancʿ ― drawing an arc (of antimony) she embellished the eyelashes

3. (post-classical) the privy parts
4. (post-classical) prepuce

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Armenian: թլիփ ‎(tʿlipʿ)

References

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “թլիփ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “թլիփ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935