բան

Etymology
From ; see it for more. The main meaning of in Old Armenian was "word, speech, saying". The sense "thing", which is the only one surviving in modern Armenian, developed from the notion of speech → the subject of speech → the subject itself. Typologically compare Hebrew.

Noun

 * 1) thing
 * 2) work, business
 * 3)  penis
 * 1) work, business
 * 2)  penis
 * 1) work, business
 * 2)  penis
 * 1) work, business
 * 2)  penis
 * 1)  penis

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) speech, word, term, saying, dictate, expression, oration, discourse
 * 2) commandment, order, injunction
 * 3) language, dialect, idiom
 * 4) opinion; reason, intellect, understanding, intelligence; counsel
 * 5) relation, ratio, correspondence
 * 6)  Word, Logos
 * 7) thing
 * 1) commandment, order, injunction
 * 2) language, dialect, idiom
 * 3) opinion; reason, intellect, understanding, intelligence; counsel
 * 4) relation, ratio, correspondence
 * 5)  Word, Logos
 * 6) thing
 * 1) commandment, order, injunction
 * 2) language, dialect, idiom
 * 3) opinion; reason, intellect, understanding, intelligence; counsel
 * 4) relation, ratio, correspondence
 * 5)  Word, Logos
 * 6) thing
 * 1) commandment, order, injunction
 * 2) language, dialect, idiom
 * 3) opinion; reason, intellect, understanding, intelligence; counsel
 * 4) relation, ratio, correspondence
 * 5)  Word, Logos
 * 6) thing
 * 1) relation, ratio, correspondence
 * 2)  Word, Logos
 * 3) thing
 * 1) thing
 * 1) thing
 * 1) thing

Usage notes
As a suffix was used in calques from Ancient Greek to translate  in words like  or, which were rendered as  and , respectively.