Armenian edit

 
A tsakat

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Etymology edit

ցաք (cʻakʻ) +‎ -ատ (-at)

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ցաքատ (cʻakʻat) (Karabakh, Lori, Ghazakh)

  1. a machete-like tool common in Artsakh used to cut (thorny) branches
    • 16–17th centuries, Eremia Mełrecʿi or Sargis Evdokiacʿi, Baṙgirkʿ hayocʿ [Armenian Dictionary] Տ.54:[1]
      տապար· կացին, կամ թապար, կամ ցաքատ (var. ցաքոտ, ցակատ), կամ նաճախ։
      tapar· kacʻin, kam tʻapar, kam cʻakʻat (var. cʻakʻot, cʻakat), kam načax.
  2. (figuratively) rough person

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Descendants edit

  • Russian: цакат (cakat) (Molokans of the village Borisovka in the Ganja district)
  • Tat: saqat, saqot, soqot

References edit

  1. ^ Amalyan, H. M., editor (1975), Baṙgirkʻ hayocʻ[1] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 308

Further reading edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “ցաքի”, 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, page 452a
  • Malxaseancʻ, Stepʻan (1945) “ցաքատ”, in Hayerēn bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, Yerevan: State Publishing House, page 461c
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “c‘ax”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 620
  • Oskanyan, Vardan (2016) “Oroš haykabanutʻyunner kovkasyan parskerenum [Some Armenisms in Caucasian Persian Language]”, in Arewelagitutʻyan harcʻer [Problems of Oriental Studies]‎[2] (in Armenian), number 12, Yerevan: University Press, pages 241–242
  • Sargsyan, Armen Yu. (2013) “ցակատ”, in Ġarabaġi barbaṙi baṙaran [Dictionary of Karabakh Dialect] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Edit Print, →ISBN, page 746a