Armenian edit

Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian ստամբակ (stambak).

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

ստամբակ (stambak) (superlative ամենաստամբակ)

  1. (archaic) indocile, disobedient, untractable

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Old Armenian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Middle Persian sthmbk' (stambag, oppressive; obstinate). Compare Persian ستنبه (setanbah, strong, robust, powerful, bold; litigious, unwilling to listen), Avestan 𐬯𐬙𐬆𐬧𐬠𐬌𐬌𐬀 (stəṇbiia, strife) and Sanskrit स्तभ्नोति (stabhnoti, to support, sustain, prop up); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stembʰH- (to prop up; to be firm, unmoving). See also ապստամբ (apstamb).

Adjective edit

ստամբակ (stambak)

  1. indocile, morose, disobedient, reluctant, untractable, froward, restive
  2. austere, rude, harsh, rigorous, severe
    • 5th century, Bible, Luke 19.21:
      Երկնչէի ի քէն, զի այր ստամբակ ես․ բառնաս՝ զոր ոչ եդիր, եւ հնձես՝ զոր ոչ սերմանեցեր։
      Erknčʻēi i kʻēn, zi ayr stambak es; baṙnas, zor očʻ edir, ew hnjes, zor očʻ sermanecʻer.
      For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow.

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Descendants edit

  • Armenian: ստամբակ (stambak)

References edit

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ստամբակ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “ստամբակ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “ստամբակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press