Armenian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Old Armenian շաւիղ (šawił).

The proscribed sense “ray, beam” is due to a confusion with շառավիղ (šaṙaviġ).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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շավիղ (šaviġ) (traditional orthography spelling շաւիղ)

  1. path, trail, track
  2. (figuratively) course, way, passage
  3. (proscribed) ray, beam

Declension

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