յաբախտ

Armenian

Etymology

From dialectal յա (ya, “vocative particle preceding a supplication or request”) +‎ բախտ (baxt, “luck, fortune”), literally “Hey, luck! O fortune!”, or borrowed whole from an equivalent Persian or Ottoman Turkish expression. For the first particle see Arabic يَا (yā, “o, hey, you”).

Pronunciation

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): /jaˈbaχt/ [jɑˈbɑχt]
• (Western Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): /jaˈpaχd/ [jɑˈpʰɑχt]

Adverb

յաբախտ • (yabaxt)

1. (dialectal) relying on luck, hoping for success by chance

Related terms

• յաբախտի (yabaxti)

Further reading

• “յաբախտ”, in Žamanakakicʻ hayocʻ lezvi bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, 1969–1980
• Aġayan, Ēduard (1976) “յաբախտ”, in Ardi hayereni bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Hayastan
• Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2001–2012), “յաբախտ”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Hayastan