արմաւ

• ամբրաւ (ambraw)

From Parthian [script needed] (T^g /*amrāw/); note especially the form Middle Armenian ամրաւ (amraw), if not an inner-Armenian development under the influence of ամր- (amr-, “hard, solid”). See Persian خرما‎ (xormâ) for more.

The other senses are a semantic loan from Ancient Greek φοῖνιξ (phoînix).

արմաւ • (armaw)

1. date (fruit)
2. bunch of dates, cluster of dates
3. date palm
4. leave of the date palm
5. kind of a grass
6. (mythology) phoenix

• Middle Armenian: արմաւ (armaw), ամրաւ (amraw), ամբրաւ (ambraw), ամպրաւ (ampraw), ամպրու (ampru)
  • Armenian: արմավ (armav), ամրավ (amrav), ամբրավ (ambrav)

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “արմաւ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “արմաւ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “արմաւ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Henning. W. B. (1950), "A Pahlavi Poem", Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 13, No. 3., page 645
• Korn, Agnes (2013), “Final troubles: Armenian stem classes and the word-end in Late Old Persian”, in Toxtasʹjev S. R., Lurʹje P. B., editors, Commentationes Iranicae. Sbornik statej k 90-letiju Vladimira Aronoviča Livšica‎, Saint Petersburg: Nestor-Istorija, →ISBN, page 81, note 39:

  HENNING (1950, p. 645) notes that the Pth. form is amrāw as seen in “Man. ʾmrʾw, against Arm. armav”, and thus reads amrāw for the Arameogram Tg in the Draxt ī Asūrīg while MACIUSZAK (2007, p. 65, 125, 184) reads (the NP form) xormā on account of <hwlmʾk> occuring ^[sic] some lines later in the text. ʾmrʾw is found in the unpublished fragment M 171 II R 10 (Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst, pers. comm.). The relevant part of the fragment is partially broken off, though (see the photo at http://www.bbaw.de/forschung/turfanforschung/dta/m/images/m0171_seite2.jpg).