Armenian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Old Armenian վարձակ (varjak).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

վարձակ (varjak)

  1. (historical) vardzak

Declension edit

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Old Armenian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Iranian *varzāk, which, according to Asatryan, is an agent noun from the root *warj- (to do; to work). For the suffix see -ակ (-ak). Byzantine Greek βάρζα (bárza) found in the Suda lexicon as a synonym of ψάλτρια (psáltria, female harper) is of the same origin.

Noun edit

վարձակ (varjak)

  1. vardzak
    • 5th century, Bible, 2 Samuel 19.35:
      [] կամ թէ լսիցե՞մ տակաւին զձայն գուսանաց եւ վարձակաց []
      [] kam tʻē lsicʻe?m takawin zjayn gusanacʻ ew varjakacʻ []
      Can I still hear the voices of gusans and vardzaks?

Declension edit

Descendants edit

  • Armenian: վարձակ (varjak)

References edit

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “վարձակ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “վարձակ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 245
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “վարձակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, pages 322–323
  • J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “վարձակ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 707
  • Асатрян, Г. С. (2013) “Парфянское gōsān [Parthian gōsān]”, in С. Р. Тохтасьев, П. Б. Лурье, editors, Commentationes Iranicae. Сборник статей к 90-летию Владимира Ароновича Лившица[1] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Nestor-Istoriya, →ISBN, page 103 of 102–105
  • Hambarjumyan V. H. et al., editors (1985), “վարձակ”, in Haykakan sovetakan hanragitaran [Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia] (in Armenian), volume XI, Yerevan: Haykakan sovetakan hanragitarani glxavor xmbagrutʻyun, page 340bc