# բզրկատուն
## Middle Armenian
### Alternative forms

* բզրկտուն (bzrktun), բզրղատուն (bzrġatun), պզրկատուն (pzrkatun), պզրկատունայ (pzrkatunay), պզրղաթուն (pzrġatʻun), պզրղաթունէ (pzrġatʻunē), պզրղայտուն (pzrġaytun), պզրղատուն (pzrġatun), պզրղատունայ (pzrġatunay), պզրղատունէ (pzrġatunē)

### Etymology

From Arabic بَزَرْقَطُونَا (bazarqaṭūnā). Tʻargmanutʻiwn dełocʻ has the manuscript variant բզրուկ (bzruk), which has been treated as a separate formation from Arabic بِزْر (bizr, “seed”) and the suffix -ուկ (-uk), however this form is probably spurious; notwithstanding, բզրուկ (bzruk) has been learnedly adopted in the modern language as the designation for Arenaria.

### Noun

բզրկատուն • (bzrkatun)
* fleawort, psyllium, Plantago psyllium (plant and seeds)
    Synonyms: ասպաղուլ (aspaġul), ասպաղօլ (aspaġōl)
** 6th–12th? centuries, Baṙkʻ Gałianosi [The Greek–Armenian Dictionary to Galen] :ալ սփիոշ (var. ալափիոլ, ալափիւղ, ալփսիոչ) = բզրկատուն (var. բզրկտուն, փզրկտուն)al spʻioš (var. alapʻiol, alapʻiwł, alpʻsiočʻ) = bzrkatun (var. bzrktun, pʻzrktun)أَسْفِيُوس (ʔasfiyūs) [اسپیوش (espayôš), اسفیوش (esfayuš)] = fleawort
** 9th or 10th century, with changes and additions in later centuries, Tʻargmanutʻiwn dełocʻ zor əntrel en imastasērkʻn ew kargeal yayl lezuacʻ [A Medieval Arabic–Armenian Botanical Dictionary] :ասփոշի (var. ասփսիշ) = վայրի բզըրկտուն (var. բզրուկ, բղրուկ)aspʻoši (var. aspʻsiš) = vayri bzərktun (var. bzruk, bġruk)أَسْفِيُوس (ʔasfiyūs) [اسپیوش (ispayôš), اسفیوش (esfayuš)] = wild fleawort

#### Usage notes

Has been confused with տզրուկ խոտ (tzruk xot, “Anagallis”).

#### Descendants

* → Armenian: բզրուկ (bzruk)

### Further reading

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բզրկատուն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 445a
* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բզրուկ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 445a
* Ališan, Ġewond (1895) “բզրկատուն․ պզրկատուն”, in Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʻiwn [Armenian Botany] (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 339, page 90
* Ališan, Ġewond (1895) “բզրուկ”, in Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʻiwn [Armenian Botany] (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 340, pages 90–91
* Ališan, Ġewond (1895) “պզրկատուն․ պըզր ըլ-ղաթուն”, in Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʻiwn [Armenian Botany] (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 2540, page 529
* Greppin, John A. C. (1985) Baṙkʿ Gaɫianosi: The Greek–Armenian Dictionary to Galen‎, Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, page 6
* Greppin, John A. C. (1997) A Medieval Arabic–Armenian Botanical Dictionary (Studien zur armenischen Geschichte; 16), a separate print of Greppin 1995, Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, § 22, page 29
* Ġazaryan, Ṙuben, Avetisyan, Henrik (2009) “բզրղատուն”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press
* Ġazaryan, Ṙuben, Avetisyan, Henrik (2009) “պզրկատուն”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press
* Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (1925) Kʻnnadatutʻiwn Haybusaki [A Critique of Haybusak] (Azgayin matenadaran; 109) (in Armenian), Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, pages 171–172