հրետ

Armenian

Etymology

A modern literary creation based on հուր (hur, fire). The ending -ետ (-et) may be borrowed from the ending of French mousquet. For such a "suffix-borrowing" in modern coinages compare թերթոն (tʿertʿon).

Pronunciation

Noun

հրետ (hret)

  1. (obsolete) cannon[1][2]
    Synonyms: թնդանոթ (tʿndanotʿ), հրանոթ (hranotʿ), գնդընկեց (gndənkecʿ)
  2. (obsolete) musket[1][3]
    Synonym: մուշկետ (mušket)

Declension

Derived terms

References

  1. Kʿaǰuni, Manuēl (1893), հրետ”, in Baṙgirkʿ aruesticʿ ew gitutʿeancʿ ew gełecʿik dprutʿeancʿ. Hamaṙōt baṙgirkʿ gitutʿeancʿ ew aruesticʿ ew gełecʿik dprutʿeancʿ hayerēn-gałłieren [Dictionary of Arts and Sciences and Belles Lettres. Concise Armenian–French Dictionary of Arts and Sciences and Belles Lettres] (in Old Armenian and French), volume III, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 146a
  2. Kʿaǰuni, Manuēl (1891), canon”, in Baṙgirkʿ aruesticʿ ew gitutʿeancʿ ew gełecʿik dprutʿeancʿ [Dictionary of Arts and Sciences and Belles Lettres] (in Old Armenian and French), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 366b
  3. Kʿaǰuni, Manuēl (1892), mousquet”, in Baṙgirkʿ aruesticʿ ew gitutʿeancʿ ew gełecʿik dprutʿeancʿ [Dictionary of Arts and Sciences and Belles Lettres] (in Old Armenian and French), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 123a
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