ցանց

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian ցանց (cʿancʿ)

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [t͡sʰɑnt͡sʰ]

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ցանց • (cʿancʿ)

1. net, netting
2. network; chain (series of stores or businesses with the same brand name)
3. (computing) network

   սոցիալական ցանց ― socʿialakan cʿancʿ ― social network

The origin is uncertain.[1][2] J̌ahukyan derives from Proto-Indo-European *skn̥-sko-, from *(s)ken- (“to peel”): compare Proto-Germanic *skinþą, Breton skant (“dandruff”), Old Irish ceinn (“peel, rind”).[3] This is considered unattractive both semantically and formally by Martirosyan, who instead connects ցանց (cʿancʿ) with Latin cassis (“hunting-net”) and catēna (“chain”) and derives all from a Mediterranean substrate word of the shape *(s)ḱats-.[4] For another possibly "Mediterranean" word from the same semantic sphere see թարփ (tʿarpʿ).

A borrowing from the Alanic ancestor of Ossetian цанс (cans) / цасм (casm, “loop, noose, snare”) has also been proposed.[5]

According to Ačaṙean, Laz ცანცა (canca, “basket for picking grapes and other fruits”) is an Armenian borrowing.[1]

ցանց • (cʿancʿ)

1. casting-net, seine (for catching fish and other animals)
   • 5th? century, Movsēs Xorenacʿi, Patmutʿiwn Hayocʿ [History of Armenia] 2.85[6]:

     Ոչ կարեմ ասել զերգագութիւն ձեռինն, ո՛րպէս անբաւք ի նմանէ յերկիր անկեալ թաւալագլոր խաղային, օրինակ իմն ի գեղեցիկ ցանցորդէ լի ձկամբք յերկիր թօթափեալ ցանցոյն, կայտռէին յերեսս երկրին։

     Očʿ karem asel zergagutʿiwn jeṙinn, órpēs anbawkʿ i nmanē yerkir ankeal tʿawalaglor xałayin, ōrinak imn i gełecʿik cʿancʿordē li jkambkʿ yerkir tʿōtʿapʿeal cʿancʿoyn, kaytṙēin yeress erkrin.

     I am unable to describe the quickness of his arm and how an infinite number [of the enemy] were struck to the ground by him and rolled in the dust. Like a net full of fish emptied on the ground by an expert fisherman, they danced on the surface of the earth.[7]

   • 5th century, Bible, Ecclesiastes 9.12[8]:

     Որպէս ձկունք որսացեալք ցանցիւք չարեօք […]

     Orpēs jkunkʿ orsacʿealkʿ cʿancʿiwkʿ čʿareōkʿ […]

     as fishes that are taken in an evil net

   սփռել զցանց ― spʿṙel zcʿancʿ ― to spread nets

   անկանիլ ի ցանցս ― ankanil i cʿancʿs ― to be caught, taken in a net; to be snared, netted, entrapped

2. (figuratively) snare

In the Bible, translates Ancient Greek ἀμφίβληστρον (amphíblēstron, “casting-net”).

• ցանցարկ (cʿancʿark)
• ցանցեմ (cʿancʿem)
• ցանցիչ (cʿancʿičʿ)
• ցանցորդ (cʿancʿord)

• ցանցառ (cʿancʿaṙ) (perhaps)

• Armenian: ցանց (cʿancʿ)
• Laz: ცანცა (canca)

• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1837), “ցանց”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, pages 909–910
• Awgerean, Mkrtičʿ (1865), “ցանց”, in Aṙjeṙn baṙaran haykaznean lezui [Pocket Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), corrected and expanded by Grigor Čēlalean, 2nd edition, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 797b
• J̌axǰaxean, Manuēl (1837), “ցանց”, in Baṙgirkʿ i barbaṙ hay ew italakan [Armenian–Italian Dictionary], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 1409b
• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “ցանց”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 715a