Armenian edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Armenian դաս (das).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

դաս (das)

  1. class; category; order
  2. estate, social class
    հոգևորական դասhogeworakan dasclergy, clerical order
  3. (biology, taxonomy) class
  4. lesson
    դաս տալdas talto give a lesson
    դասի գնալdasi gnalto go to school
  5. homework; task; lesson
    դասերը սովորելdaserə sovorelto do one's lessons
  6. (architecture) choir

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Udi: даьс (däs)

Old Armenian edit

Etymology edit

Together with Old Georgian დასი (dasi) borrowed from Iranian: compare Khotanese [script needed] (dasa, section or arrangement), Ossetian дасун (dasun, to heap up).[1][2][3] Further connections outside of Iranian unknown.[4] See also դարսել (darsel).

Noun edit

դաս (das)

  1. group, division, body (of men, animals, soldiers, etc.); choir (of angels)
    դաս դասdas dasin several orders or assemblages, in several companies
  2. order, rank, class
  3. special place of divine service in the church
  4. lesson, precept, dictate, instruction
    դաս ասել ումեքdas asel umekʻto lecture, to read, to teach

Declension edit

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Descendants edit

References edit

  1. ^ Benveniste, Émile (1945) “Études iraniennes”, in Transactions of the Philological Society (in French), volume 44, number 1, →DOI, page 72
  2. ^ Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 154a
  3. ^ J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “դաս”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 185a
  4. ^ Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 64-65

Further reading edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “դաս”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “դաս”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “դաս”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy