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From Old Armenian վարդապետ (vardapet). Doublet of վարպետ (varpet).

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վարդապետ (vardapet)

  1. (ecclesiastical) vardapet
    Synonym: (dialectal, slang) պոպոզ (popoz)
  2. (archaic, literary) teacher

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Etymology edit

A borrowing from a Southwestern Iranian word of the form *vard(a)-pet (literally master of students or master of work). The first part is ultimately from Proto-Iranian *warj- (note especially Old Persian *vard- (to work)) and is a doublet of վարժ (varž), վարձ (varj), and գործ (gorc). The second part is from *pátiš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pátiš (master, lord), whence Old Armenian պետ (pet). Akin to Middle Persian 𐭥𐭥𐭣𐭯𐭲 (wrdpt /⁠wardbed⁠/, a title).

Noun edit

վարդապետ (vardapet)

  1. teacher, lecturer, professor, doctor
    վարդապետ օրինացvardapet ōrinacʿdoctor of laws
    վարդապետ աստուածաբանութեանvardapet astuacabanutʿeandoctor in divinity, D. D.
    վարդապետ բժշկութեանvardapet bžškutʿeandoctor in medicine, M.D.
    զվարդապետի թեկն ածելzvardapeti tʿekn acelto pass oneself off as a doctor
  2. supervising foreman
  3. (figuratively) instigator, exciter
  4. (post-Classical, ecclesiastical) vardapet

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References edit

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