հրամանատար

Armenian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian հրամանատար (hramanatar).

Pronunciation

Noun

հրամանատար • (hramanatar)

  1. military commander

Declension

Old Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

An Iranian borrowing: compare Old Persian [script needed] (framātar, master, lord), Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (plmʾtʾl /⁠framādār⁠/, commander, ruler, chief). For the constituents see Old Armenian հրամայեմ (hramayem), հրաման (hraman) and Persian ـدار (-dâr). The form հրամանատար (hramanatar) is either a folk-etymological reshaping of հրամատար (hramatar) as հրաման (hraman, command) + -ա- (-a-) + -տար (-tar, to carry) or is borrowed from a parallel Iranian form: compare Sogdian [Syriac needed] (frmʾndʾr /⁠framāndār⁠/, governor, tutor), Persian فرماندار (farmândâr, governor).

Noun

հրամանատար • (hramanatar)

  1. ruler, governor

Declension

Derived terms

  • հրամանատարություն (hramanatarutʻyun)

Descendants

  • Armenian: հրամանատար (hramanatar)

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “հրամանատար”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “հրամանատար”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Chaumont, Marie-Louise (2000) “FRAMADĀR”, in Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, New York
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 182
  • Meyer, Robin (2017) Iranian-Armenian language contact in and before the 5th century CE. PhD thesis, University of Oxford, page 16
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “հրամանատար”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
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