Երասխ
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[edit] Armenian
[edit] Etymology
From Old Armenian Երասխ; see it for more.
[edit] Pronunciation
- (Eastern Armenian) IPA: [jɛˈɾɑsχ]
[edit] Proper noun
Երասխ (Erasx)
[edit] Synonyms
[edit] Declension
declension (Eastern Armenian) i-type
[edit] External links
- Search “Երասխ” in the Eastern Armenian National Corpus.
[edit] Old Armenian
[edit] Etymology
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.
[edit] Proper noun
Երասխ (Erasx) (singular genitive Երասխայ)
- (geography) Araxes
[edit] Declension
declension a-type
[edit] Descendants
- Armenian: Երասխ
[edit] References
- “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