Armenian edit

Noun edit

արգատ (argat)

  1. Alternative form of արքատ (arkʻat)

Declension edit

Middle Armenian edit

Etymology edit

The origin is unknown. Attested only in Middle Armenian and in the Ararat dialect as արքատ (arkʻat).

Ałayan derives from Old Armenian *րգատ (*rgat), from *գրատ (*grat), from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds.[1] This etymology is considered the most probable one by Martirosyan.[2]

Noun edit

արգատ (argat)

  1. superfluous branches cut off from a vine and used for kindling
    Synonym: որթոտ (ortʻot)
    • 17th century, Eremia Mełrecʿi, Baṙgirkʿ hayocʿ [Armenian Dictionary] 233:[3][4]
      Ուռ · ճիղ, կամ արգատ։
      Uṙ · čiġ, kam argat.

Descendants edit

  • Armenian: արքատ (arkʻat), արքադ (arkʻad), արգատ (argat)

References edit

  1. ^ Aġayan, Ēduard (1974) Baṙakʻnnakan ew stugabanakan hetazotutʻyunner [Lexicological and Etymological Studies]‎[1] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 30–31
  2. ^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “argat”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 132
  3. ^ Eremia Meġrecʻi (1698) “ուռ”, in Baṙgirkʻ hayocʻ [Armenian Dictionary] (in Armenian), Livorno: Sargis Evdokiacʻi Sahetʻči Press, page 258
  4. ^ Amalyan, H. M., editor (1975), Baṙgirkʻ hayocʻ[2] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 261

Further reading edit

  • Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (1884) “sarment”, in Baṙagirkʻ i gałłierēn lezuē i hayerēn [Dictionary from the French Language into Armenian]‎[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian Press, page 1118
  • Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (2000) “արգատ”, in Martiros Minassian, editor, Baṙagirkʻ storin hayerēni i matenagrutʻeancʻ ŽA–ŽĒ darucʻ [Dictionary of Middle Armenian Based on the Literature of 11–17th Centuries]‎[4], edited from the author's unfinished manuscript written 1884–1915, Geneva: Martiros Minassian, page 77
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “արգատ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 304a