# բարտի
## Armenian
### Alternative forms

* բարդի (bardi) — Eastern Armenian, Alashkert, Mush
* բՙարդի (bʻardi) — Kharberd
* բա̈րդի (bärdi) — Vozm, Van
* բառդի (baṙdi) — Ararat
* բՙարդը՛ (bʻardə́), բՙայդը՛ (bʻaydə́) — Zeitun
* բա̈րդը՛ (bärdə́) — Moks

### Etymology

Inherited from Middle Armenian բարտի (barti).

### Pronunciation

* (Western Armenian) IPA: /pɑɾˈdi/, [pʰɑɾdí]
* Audio (Eastern Armenian):(file)
* Hyphenation: բար‧տի

### Noun

բարտի • (barti)
* (Western Armenian) poplar
    Synonym: ճանդարի (čandari)
* (dialectal, Adana) fence for orchard or garden
* (dialectal, Tokat) building materials used in fences cut off from the poplar

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: pərdi
** → Armenian: փա̈րդու (pʻärdu) (Karabakh)
** →⇒ Udi: пардукӏ (parduḳ)
* → Turkish: pardı, perdü, parda, partı, pardi, perdi

### Adjective

բարտի • (barti)
* (dialectal, Ararat, figuratively) tall like a poplar

### Further reading

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “բարտի”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 160
* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բարտի”, 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 430b
* Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2001), “բարտի”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 173a

## Middle Armenian
### Etymology

The origin is uncertain. An inheritance from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵós (“birch”) is phonologically difficult.

### Noun

բարտի • (barti)
* poplar
** Ephrem the Syrian, Yayn čaṙēn or vasn erašti ew vašxaṙuacʻ [Homily on Draught and Usurers] :Անուն տնգոյն սաբեկ ասի․ բայց ոչ ինչ աստուածային գիրս ունի սովորութիւն անուանել ծառ, ոչ մայր, ոչ կիւպարիս, ոչ սարդ, ոչ ստրոբողոն, ոչ սարոն, ոչ կաղնի, ոչ բարտի, ոչ սուսոյ, ոչ այլ ինչ յայսպիսեացս ոչ արդեօք իցէ։Anun tngoyn sabek asi; baycʻ očʻ inčʻ astuacayin girs uni sovorutʻiwn anuanel caṙ, očʻ mayr, očʻ kiwparis, očʻ sard, očʻ strobołon, očʻ saron, očʻ kałni, očʻ barti, očʻ susoy, očʻ ayl inčʻ yayspiseacʻs očʻ ardeōkʻ icʻē.

#### Descendants

* Armenian: բարտի (barti), բարդի (bardi) — Eastern Armenian, Alashkert, Mush, բՙարդի (bʻardi) — Kharberd, բա̈րդի (bärdi) — Vozm, Van, բառդի (baṙdi) — Ararat, բՙարդը՛ (bʻardə́), բՙայդը՛ (bʻaydə́) — Zeitun, բա̈րդը՛ (bärdə́) — Moks
** → Azerbaijani: pərdi
*** → Armenian: փա̈րդու (pʻärdu) (Karabakh)
*** →⇒ Udi: пардукӏ (parduḳ)
** → Turkish: pardı, perdü, parda, partı, pardi, perdi

### References

* ↑ Epʻrem Xori Asori (1836) Srboyn Epʻremi matenagrutʻiwnkʻ. Hator čʻorrord. Čaṙkʻ ew ałōtʻkʻ [Collected works of Ephrem the Syrian. Volume IV: Homilies and Prayers] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 209

### Further reading

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բարտի”, 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 430, considers the origin unknown and derives the descendants of Proto-Kartvelian *bard- from Armenian
* Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “բարտի”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
* Bănățeanu, Vlad (1960) “Terminologia arborilor în limba armeană”, in Studii și cercetări lingvistice (in Romanian), volume 11, number 3, pages 365–366
* J̌ahukyan, G. B. (1975) “Die Bedeutung der ersten (indogermanischen) und der zweiten (inner-armenischen) Palatalisierung für die Konstituierung des armenischen Konsonanten-Systems”, in Zeitschrift Für Vergleichende Sprachforschung‎ (in German), volume 89, number 1, page 35 of 31–42
* Капанцян, Г. А. (1952) О взаимоотношении армянского и лазо-мегрельского языков [On the relationship between the Armenian and Lazo-Mingrelian languages] (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 16–17
* Ġazaryan, Ṙuben, Avetisyan, Henrik (2009) “բարտի”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 115a
* Lidén, Evald (1905–1906) “Baumnamen und Verwandtes”, in Indogermanische Forschungen‎ (in German), volume 18, pages 490–491
* Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “barti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 172
* Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (2000) “բարտի”, in Martiros Minassian, editor, Baṙagirkʻ storin hayerēni i matenagrutʻeancʻ ŽA–ŽĒ darucʻ [Dictionary of Middle Armenian Based on the Literature of 11–17th Centuries]‎, edited from the author's unfinished manuscript written 1884–1915, Geneva: Martiros Minassian, page 106
* Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “բարտի”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
* Saradževa, L. A. (1981) “Сравнительно-типологическое исследование индоевропейской ботанической терминологии в древнеармянском и славянских языках [A comparative-typological study of Indo-European botanical terminology in Old Armenian and Slavic languages]”, in Этимология‎ (in Russian), number 1979, Moscow: Nauka, page 166 of 156–167