ստրուկ

Armenian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian ստրուկ (struk)

Pronunciation

Noun

ստրուկ • (struk)

  1. slave
    Synonym: (dialectal) քէօլէ (kʻēōlē)
  2. (figuratively) a slave to
  3. (figuratively) subordinate, inferior

Declension

Derived terms

Old Armenian

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Iranian: compare Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (stwl /⁠stūr⁠/, trustee, curator, guardian), Bactrian αβη-στορογο-παδδιστο (abē-storogo-paddisto, without the obligations of a vassal), possibly also Gandhari [Kharoshthi needed] (sturaka-, a title of nobility).[1][2][3]

Noun

ստրուկ • (struk)

  1. slave
    ընդոծին ստրուկəndocin strukslave born in the house
  2. vassal, subject, serf
  3. servant

Declension

Derived terms

  • ստրկագոյն (strkagoyn)
  • ստրկածին (strkacin)
  • ստրկամեծար (strkamecar)
  • ստրկային (strkayin)
  • ստրկանամ (strkanam)
  • ստրկապէս (strkapēs)
  • ստրկասէր (strkasēr)
  • ստրկացուցանեմ (strkacʻucʻanem)
  • ստրկեմ (strkem)
  • ստրկութիւն (strkutʻiwn)

Descendants

  • Armenian: ստրուկ (struk)
  • Old Georgian: სტრუკი (sṭruḳi)

References

  1. Perikhanian, Anahit (1970) “On some Pahlavi legal terms”, in Mary Boyce, Ilya Gershevitch, editors, W.B. Henning memorial volume, London: Lund Humphries, page 357
  2. Bailey, H. W. (1986) “An Iranian miscellany in Armenian”, in Dickran Kouymjian, editor, Armenian studies in memoriam Haïg Berbérian (1887-1978), Lisbon: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, pages 3–4
  3. Sims-Williams, Nicholas (2000) Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan II. Letters and Buddhist texts (Studies in the Khalili Collection III, Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum II; II), Oxford: Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, page 184a

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “ստրուկ”, 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) “ստրուկ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ստրուկ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
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