հէն

From Middle Iranian. Compare Middle Persian hyn' (hēn).

հէն • (hēn)

1. robber, brigand; band of robbers, gang of brigands; hostile army

   հէն ծովու ― hēn covu ― sea-robber, pirate, freebooter, corsair, sea-rover

2. brigandage, plundering; piracy; attack, incursion

   հինից պարապիլ ― hinicʻ parapil ― to become a highwayman, to rob, to plunder

   հինի/հինիւ ելանել ― hini/hiniw elanel ― to take to the highway, to overrun or scour, to make incursions

3. noise, commotion

   զի՞նչ քան զայն հէն եւ աղաղակ կայցէ ― zi^?nčʻ kʻan zayn hēn ew ałałak kaycʻē ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• Armenian: հեն (hen)

• J̌axǰaxean, Manuēl (1837) “հէն”, in Baṙgirkʻ i barbaṙ hay ew italakan [Armenian–Italian Dictionary], volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 876c
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “հէն”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 405a
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1837) “հէն”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 96ab
• Ġazarean, Ṙ. S. (2000) “հէն”, in Tʻosunean G. B., editor, Grabari baṙaran [Dictionary of Old Armenian] (in Armenian), volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 69b
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 180
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “հէն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 91
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period]‎ (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 531
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “հէն”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 460a