Երասխ

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[edit] Armenian

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From Old Armenian Երասխ; see it for more.

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Երասխ (Erasx)

  1. (archaic, poetic) Aras river

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[edit] Old Armenian

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From Iranian *Raxsā- (swift-flowing) from *ra(n)g- (to move swiftly); compare Sanskrit रङ्घते (raṅghate, to hasten, run). Taken by Armenians in the 7-6th century BC, during intensive contacts with the Median Empire. Old Georgian რახსი (Raxsi) and Ancient Greek Ἀράξης too are from Iranian.

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Երասխ (Erasx)  (singular genitive Երասխայ)

  1. (geography) Araxes

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  • Երասխ in Mxitʿar Sebastacʿi (1769), Baṙgirkʿ Haykazean Lezui: Baṙaran yatuk anuancʿ (Venice)
  • Периханян А.Г. (1993), Материалы к этимологическому словарю древнеармянского языка (Ереван: Изд-во НАН РА), on page 12
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