Արամազդ

Armenian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian Արամազդ (Aramazd).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Արամազդ • (Aramazd)

  1. (Armenian mythology) Aramazd
  2. a male given name, Aramazd

Declension

Old Armenian

Etymology

Borrowed from an Old Iranian form of the god Ahura Mazda: compare Old Persian 𐎠𐎢𐎼𐎶𐏀𐎭𐎠 (a-u-r-m-z-d-a /⁠Auramazdā⁠/), Avestan 𐬀𐬵𐬎𐬭𐬀 𐬨𐬀𐬰𐬛𐬁 (ahura mazdā), Ancient Greek Ἀραμάσδης (Aramásdēs). Doublet of Որմիզդ (Ormizd).

Proper noun

Արամազդ • (Aramazd)

  1. (Armenian mythology) Aramazd

Declension

Derived terms

  • Արամազդեան (Aramazdean)

Descendants

  • Armenian: Արամազդ (Aramazd)

Further reading

  • Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1942) “Արամազդ”, in Hayocʻ anjnanunneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Personal Names of Armenians] (Erewani petakan hamalsaran. Gitakan ašxatutʻyunner; 21) (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 268
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, pages 24–25
  • Livšic, V. A. (2010) Parfjanskaja onomastika [Parthian onomastics] (in Russian), St. Petersburg: Linguistic Society of St. Petersburg, →ISBN, page 55
  • Schmitt, Rüdiger (1987) “Armenia and Iran IV. Iranian influences in Armenian 1. General”, in Ehsan Yarshater, editor, Encyclopædia Iranica, volume 2, London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, page 453b of 445–459
  • Bailey, H. W. (1987) “Armenia and Iran IV. Iranian influences in Armenian 2. Iranian loanwords in Armenian”, in Ehsan Yarshater, editor, Encyclopædia Iranica, volume 2, London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, page 459b of 459–465
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