արգատ

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Armenian[edit]

Noun[edit]

արգատ (argat)

  1. Alternative form of արքատ (arkʻat)

Declension[edit]

Middle Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

The origin is unknown. Attested only in Middle Armenian and in the Ararat dialect as արքատ (arkʻat).

Ałayan derives from Old Armenian *րգատ (*rgat), from *գրատ (*grat), from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds.[1] This etymology is considered the most probable one by Martirosyan.[2]

Noun[edit]

արգատ (argat)

  1. superfluous branches cut off from a vine and used for kindling
    Synonym: որթոտ (ortʻot)
    • 17th century, Eremia Mełrecʿi, Baṙgirkʿ hayocʿ [Armenian Dictionary] 233:[3][4]
      Ուռ · ճիղ, կամ արգատ։
      Uṙ · čiġ, kam argat.

Descendants[edit]

  • Armenian: արքատ (arkʻat), արքադ (arkʻad), արգատ (argat)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Aġayan, Ēduard (1974) Baṙakʻnnakan ew stugabanakan hetazotutʻyunner [Lexicological and Etymological Studies]‎[1] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 30–31
  2. ^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “argat”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 132
  3. ^ Eremia Meġrecʻi (1698) “ուռ”, in Baṙgirkʻ hayocʻ [Armenian Dictionary] (in Armenian), Livorno: Sargis Evdokiacʻi Sahetʻči Press, page 258
  4. ^ Amalyan, H. M., editor (1975), Baṙgirkʻ hayocʻ[2] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 261

Further reading[edit]

  • Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (1884) “sarment”, in Baṙagirkʻ i gałłierēn lezuē i hayerēn [Dictionary from the French Language into Armenian]‎[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian Press, page 1118
  • Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (2000) “արգատ”, in Martiros Minassian, editor, Baṙagirkʻ storin hayerēni i matenagrutʻeancʻ ŽA–ŽĒ darucʻ [Dictionary of Middle Armenian Based on the Literature of 11–17th Centuries]‎[4], edited from the author's unfinished manuscript written 1884–1915, Geneva: Martiros Minassian, page 77
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “արգատ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 304a