բան

Old Armenian

noun
Definitions
  • speech, word, term, saying, dictate, expression, oration, discourse
  • commandment, order, injunction
  • language, dialect, idiom
  • opinion; reason, intellect, understanding, intelligence; counsel
  • relation, ratio, correspondence
  • (philosophy) Word, Logos
  • thing

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ni-.

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*bʰeh₂ni-

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