Հայ-արաբական լեզուական առնչութիւնների պատմութիւնից

Abstract

According to certain historians, Armenian-Arabic language contacts begun in 4th- 3rd C., when Arab tribes settled in Mesopotamia and interacted with the Armenians of southern Armenia. Armenian-Arabic language and cultural contacts deepened over the centuries, especially during the Middle Ages, when the official language of Cilician Armenia became Middle Armenian. The paper focuses on these interactions, highlights and discusses the early and late stages of Armenian-Arabic language contacts and the findings of the Armenian linguist Nerses Mkrtchyan concerning Arabic words in Middle Armenian. In this regard, using etymological approaches, the author reviews a number of words in Middle Armenian which have an Arabic origin.