աշխատ

An Iranian borrowing, probably Middle Median because of the prothetic a-. Compare Middle Persian [script needed] (ʾxšʾd, “depressed, troubled”), Middle Persian [Manichaean needed] (ʾxšʾdyh, “suffering”), Sanskrit क्षत (kṣata, “hurt”). Further connections outside of Indo-Iranian uncertain.

աշխատ • (ašxat) indeclinable

1. toil, work; torture, trouble

   աշխատ առնել ― ašxat aṙnel ― to give trouble, to fatigue, to harass, to incommode, to disquiet, to disturb; to torment to plague, to rack; to weary; to importune, to pester

   աշխատ լինել ― ašxat linel ― to take trouble

The word is not used independently (but is found in compounds) apart from the two idioms mentioned above.

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