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From Middle Armenian ինատ (inat), from Ottoman Turkish عناد (inad, inat), from Arabic عِنَاد (ʕinād).

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ինադ (inad)

  1. (dialectal) attitude of proud defiance, stubbornness and obstinacy to the detriment of everyone else
    ինադ ընկնելinad ənknelto behave stubbornly, to do something out of spite for someone

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  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “ինատ”, in Tʻurkʻerēni azdecʻutʻiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʻurkʻerēnē pʻoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žoġovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʻeamb Vani, Ġarabaġi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages
  • Malxaseancʻ, Stepʻan (1944–1945) “ինադ”, in Hayerēn bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: State Publishing House