երաշտ

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Armenian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Old Armenian երաշտ (erašt).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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երաշտ (erašt)

  1. drought

Declension

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Old Armenian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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An Iranian borrowing: compare Persian رشت (rašt, very dry).[1][2]

Noun

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երաշտ (erašt)

  1. drought, dryness

Declension

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Adjective

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երաշտ (erašt)

  1. dry, arid, parched

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Armenian: երաշտ (erašt), արաշտ (arašt)

References

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  1. ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “երաշտ”, 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, page 40
  2. ^ Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 880

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