Սևադայ

Old Armenian

Etymology

An Arabic name from سَوَاد (sawād, “blackness, black”). Borne by Sawada ibn Abd al-Hamid al-Jahhafi, an Arab governor of Armenia, and by a Persian prince who married an Armenian Bagratuni princess, both from the 9th century. Among Armenians used in the 10–14th centuries.

Proper noun

Սևադայ • (Sewaday)

1. a male given name

Declension

i-a-type or i-type

	singular (uncountable)
nominative	Սևադայ (Sewaday)
genitive	Սևադայի (Sewadayi)
dative	Սևադայի (Sewadayi)
accusative	Սևադայ (Sewaday)
ablative	Սևադայէ (Sewadayē)
instrumental	?
locative	Սևադայի (Sewadayi)
the instrumental singular is not attested, which does not allow determining whether the word followed an i-type or an i-a-type declension

Descendants

• → Armenian: Սեւադա (Sewada)

Further reading

• Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1942) “Սևադայ”, in Hayocʻ anjnanunneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Personal Names of Armenians] (Erewani petakan hamalsaran. Gitakan ašxatutʻyunner; 21) (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 483–484