բստա
Armenian edit
The spelling of this entry has been normalized from բըստա̊ and բըստա̈ according to the principles established by Wiktionary's editor community or recent spelling standards of the language.
Alternative forms edit
- բըստա̊ (bəstå) — dialectological notation
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Northern Kurdish biste, bisteh (“sure, hopeful, bold; openly, boldly”) recorded by Orbeli in Moks, which is cognate with the synonymous Central Kurdish بِستە (biste) and Persian گستاخ (gostâx, “brash”). Thus, a doublet of վստահ (vstah) and վստա (vsta).
Adverb edit
- openly, boldly, confidently
- 2012, Armenians folktales, volume XVII, Moxoene page 377:[1]
- Ընչ բըստա̈ կիլնը, օրըմ կըսը․ — Չըլ-Բը՛սկ, ա̈ղու քո̈ւ իրկան հո̈ւնա̈ր մա ընչկին ը։
- Ənčʻ bəstä kilnə, ōrəm kəsə; — Čʻəl-Bə́sk, äġu kʻü irkan hünär ma ənčʻkin ə.
- Ընչ բըստա̈ կիլնը, օրըմ կըսը․ — Չըլ-Բը՛սկ, ա̈ղու քո̈ւ իրկան հո̈ւնա̈ր մա ընչկին ը։
References edit
- Asatrian, G., Livshits, V. (1994) “Origine du système consonantique de la langue kurde”, in Acta Kurdica, volume 1, page 103 of 81–108
- Orbeli, I. A. (2002) “biste, bisteh”, in Курдско-русский словарь [Kurdish–Russian Dictionary] (Избранные труды в двух томах; II.2)[2] (in Russian), edited by Ž. S. Musaeljan and I. I. Cukerman from the author's manuscript written during his 1911–1912 Moks expedition, Yerevan: Academy Press, →ISBN, page 48
- Orbeli, I. A. (2002) “բըստա̊”, in Словарь наречия Мокса [Dictionary of Moks Dialect] (Избранные труды в двух томах; II.1)[3] (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, →ISBN, page 214