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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Old Armenian Աշոտ (Ašot).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Աշոտ (Ašot)

  1. a male given name, Ashot or Ashod

Declension

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Derived terms

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Old Armenian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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The origin is unknown. The form Արշոտ (Aršot) may be earlier. Related to Georgian აშოთან (ašotan).

Proper noun

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Աշոտ (Ašot)

  1. a male given name, Ashot

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Armenian: Աշոտ (Ašot) (learned)
  • Arabic: آشُوط (ʔāšūṭ)
  • Byzantine Greek: Ἀσώτιος (Asṓtios)
  • Old Georgian: აშოტ (ašoṭ)

Further reading

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  • Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1942) “Աշոտ”, in Hayocʻ anjnanunneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Personal Names of Armenians] (Erewani petakan hamalsaran. Gitakan ašxatutʻyunner; 21) (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 180, compares to the Arabic name أَشْعَث (ʔašʕaṯ)
  • Adonc, N. (1908) Армения в эпоху Юстиниана: Политическое состояние на основе нахарарскаго строя [Armenia in the period of Justinian: The political conditions based on the naxarar system] (Тексты и разыскания по армяно-грузинской филологии; XI) (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 247
  • Justi, Ferdinand (1895) Iranisches Namenbuch[1] (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, pages 44–45
  • Kerestedjian, Bedros (1945) Kerest Haig, editor, Étude philologique et lexicographique de 6000 mots et noms arméniens avec des comparaisons de 100.000 mots de 900 langues et des données historiques et géographiques[2] (in French), London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., page 37, compares to Coptic ⲉϣⲱⲧ (ešōt, merchant); see ϣⲱⲧ (šōt)