ցանց

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian ցանց (cʻancʻ)

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /t͡sʰɑnt͡sʰ/, [t͡sʰɑnt͡sʰ]
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /t͡sɑnt͡s/, [t͡sʰɑnt͡sʰ]

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ցանց • (cʻancʻ)

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

   սոցիալական ցանց ― socʻialakan cʻancʻ ― 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 (cʻancʻ) 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 (tʻarpʻ).

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 (ʒanʒa, “basket for picking grapes and other fruits”) is an Armenian borrowing.^[1]

ցանց • (cʻancʻ)

1. casting-net, seine (for catching fish and other animals)

   սփռել զցանց ― spʻṙel zcʻancʻ ― to spread nets

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

   • 5th? century, Movsēs Xorenacʻi, Patmutʻiwn Hayocʻ [History of Armenia] 2.85:^[6][7]

     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։

     Očʻ karem asel zergagutʻiwn jeṙinn, órpēs anbawkʻ i nmanē yerkir ankeal tʻawalaglor xałayin, ōrinak imn i gełecʻik cʻancʻordē li jkambkʻ yerkir tʻōtʻapʻeal cʻancʻoyn, kaytṙēin yeress erkrin.

     • Translation by Robert W. Thomson

       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.

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

     Որպէս ձկունք որսացեալք ցանցիւք չարեօք […]

     Orpēs jkunkʻ orsacʻealkʻ cʻancʻiwkʻ čʻareōkʻ […]

     as fishes that are taken in an evil net

2. (figuratively) snare

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

• ցանցարկ (cʻancʻark)
• ցանցեմ (cʻancʻem)
• ցանցիչ (cʻancʻičʻ)
• ցանցորդ (cʻancʻord)

• ցանցառ (cʻancʻaṙ) (perhaps)

• → Armenian: ցանց (cʻancʻ) (learned)
• → Laz: ცანცა (ʒanʒa)

• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1837) “ցանց”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, pages 909–910
• Awgerean, Mkrtičʻ, Čēlalean, Grigor (1865) “ցանց”, in Aṙjeṙn baṙaran haykaznean lezui [Pocket Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 797b
• J̌axǰaxean, Manuēl (1837) “ցանց”, in Baṙgirkʻ i barbaṙ hay ew italakan [Armenian–Italian Dictionary], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 1409b
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ցանց”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 715a