աստուած

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Old Armenian [edit]

The word Աստուած (Astuac, God) abbreviated. Only the first and the last letters are written, under the Armenian abbreviation mark.

Etymology [edit]

According to Ačaṙyan a Phrygian borrowing. Compare the Ancient Greek name of the chief Thraco-Phrygian god Sabazios: Σαβάζιος, Σαβάθιος, Σεβάδιος, Σευάδιος, Σαυάζιος, Σαάζιος.

Noun [edit]

աստուած  (astuac)  

  1. pagan god
  2. (capitalized, singular only) God of Christianity
    արար Ած՟ զաշխարհս յանգոյից (arar Ac zašxarhs yangoyicʿ) — God created the world from nothing
    տալ փառս Այ՟ (tal pʿaṙs Ay) — to glorify God, to give or render glory to God, to thank God
    ի պատկեր Այ՟ (i patker Ay) — in the image of God

Declension [edit]

Usage notes [edit]

In the sense of “God” the word was always abbreviated: see the picture above.

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References [edit]

  • աստուած in Mathias Bedrossian (1879), New Dictionary Armenian-English (Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy)
  • աստուած in G. Awetikʿean, X. Siwrmēlean, M. Awgerean (1836–37), Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui (Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy)
  • աստուած in Hračʿeay Ačaṙean (1926–35), Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran (Yerevan: Yerevan State University), 2nd ed., 1971–79