# կոպ
## Armenian
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Armenian կոպ (kop).

### Pronunciation

* (Eastern Armenian) IPA: /kop/, [kop]
* (Western Armenian) IPA: /ɡob/, [ɡob]
* Audio (Eastern Armenian):(file)

### Noun

կոպ • (kop)
* eyelid

#### Declension
## Old Armenian
### Alternative forms

* կոփ (kopʻ)

### Etymology

The origin is unknown.
Čubinov compares with Georgian კოპი (ḳoṗi, “bump, lump on head; rawhide thong”).
Hiwnkʿearpēyēntean derives from the verb կափուցանեմ (kapʻucʻanem, “to cover, shut, close”).
Bugge posits earlier *կողպ- (*kołp-), inherited from Proto-Indo-European and cognate with Bulgarian клепа́ч (klepáč, “eyelid”), кле́пка (klépka, “eyelash; eyelid”), Old Church Slavonic по-клопъ (po-klopŭ, “lid”), Ancient Greek κόλπος (kólpos), Proto-Germanic *hwalfą.
Patrubány (apud Ačaṙean) and J̌ahukyan 1967 connect with Ancient Greek σκέπω (sképō), σκεπάζω (skepázō, “to cover; to protect”), σκέπας (sképas, “covering, shelter”), Lithuanian kepùrė (“cap”), Russian чепе́ц (čepéc, “cap”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to cover”).
J̌ahukyan 1987 lists the word among the unetymologized i-stem nouns for which an Urartian origin can be sought.
According to J̌ahukyan 2010, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ- and related to կապ (kap) and կափ- (kapʻ-).
Ačaṙean leaves the origin open. The problem with the Indo-European proposals is that they assume irregular consonant shifts for Armenian.

### Noun

կոպ • (kop)
* eyelid

#### Declension

post-classical
post-classical

#### Descendants

* Armenian: կոպ (kop)
* → Udi: кӏопӏ (ḳoṗ)

### References

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “կոպ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, pages 635—636
* Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836) “կոպ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 1117a
* Bugge, Sophus (1893) “Beiträge zur etymologischen Erläuterung der armenischen Sprache”, in Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung (in German), volume 32, page 51
* Čubinov, David (1840) “კოპი”, in Грузинско-русско-французский словарь [Georgian–Russian–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 250a
* Čubinov, David (1887) “კოპი”, in Грузинско-русский словарь [Georgian–Russian Dictionary]‎, Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, column 624
* Džaukjan, G. B. (1967) Очерки по истории дописьменного периода армянского языка [An Outline of the History of the Pre-Literary Period of the Armenian Language]‎ (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 145
* J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period]‎ (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 440
* J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “կոպ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 420a
* Hiwnkʻearpēyēntean, Yovhannēs (1894) “կոպ”, in Stugabanakan baṙaran hayocʻ lezui [Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Language]‎ (in Armenian), Constantinople: G. Paġtatlean Press, page 38b
* Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “կոպ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 355b