շատ

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Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Armenian շատ (šat), from an Iranian source, from Proto-Iranian *čyáHtiš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čyáHtiš, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyéh₁-ti-s ~ *kʷih₁-téy-s, from *kʷyeh₁- (to rest) +‎ *-tis;[1] compare Persian شاد (šâd, glad, happy), French quiétude, and, for an analogous semantic development from the same root, English quite. Doublet of հանգչել (hangčʻel).

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

շատ (šat) (superlative ամենաշատ)

  1. a lot of, many, much

Declension[edit]

Synonyms[edit]

Adverb[edit]

շատ (šat)

  1. very

References[edit]

  1. ^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 388-389