dc.contributor.author | Russell, James R. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-07-23T18:12:51Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.identifier | Quick submit: 2013-06-06T23:37:43-04:00 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Russell, James R. 2013. On an Armenian word list from the Cairo Geniza. Iran and the Caucasus 17(2): 189-214. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1609-8498 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:10880590 | |
dc.description.abstract | This study deals with a short text on a small piece of paper, a conversational glossary, found in the Cairo Geniza. It is likely to be nearly a millennium old, and consists of a list of twenty Judaeo-Arabic words and phrases with their equivalents in Armenian written in Hebrew script. It suggests that members of the two communities met in a convivial setting, possibly a Barekendan (Mardi Gras) party where an official was parodied as a goat in effigy— a custom encountered in other Armenian celebrations of the holiday at Lvov in the 16th century; and Tiflis, in the 19th. The other words in the list reflect economic and cultural realia of the 11th-13th centuries. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Brill Academic Publishers | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | doi:10.1163/1573384X-20130205 | en_US |
dash.license | OAP | |
dc.title | On an Armenian Word List from the Cairo Geniza | en_US |
dc.type | Journal Article | en_US |
dc.date.updated | 2013-06-07T03:38:04Z | |
dc.description.version | Accepted Manuscript | en_US |
dc.rights.holder | James R Russell | |
dc.relation.journal | Iran and the Caucasus | en_US |
dash.depositing.author | Russell, James R. | |
dc.date.available | 2013-07-23T18:12:51Z | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1163/1573384X-20130205 | * |
dash.contributor.affiliated | Russell, James | |