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շանթահար

շանթահար

Armenian

Adjective

շանթահար (šantʿahar) (superlative ամենաշանթահար)

  1. struck by lightning
  2. (figuratively) thunderstruck, amazed, astounded

Declension


Old Armenian

Etymology

շանթ (šantʿ) + -ա- (-a-) + հարկանեմ (harkanem)

Adjective

շանթահար (šantʿahar)

  1. struck by lightning, thunder-struck
    շանթահար լինելšantʿahar linel ― to be struck by lightning, to be thunder-struck
    շանթահար առնելšantʿahar aṙnel ― to fulminate, to strike with lightning
    • 5th? century, Movsēs Xorenacʿi, Patmutʿiwn Hayocʿ [History of Armenia] 3.37
      որպէս զշանթահար յերկիր կործանէր զքաջն
      • 1978 translation by Robert W. Thomson
        smote the brave warrior to the ground as if he had been struck by a thunderbolt
    • 16–17th centuries, Eremia Mełrecʿi or Sargis Evdokiacʿi, Baṙgirkʿ hayocʿ [Armenian Dictionary] 51
      շանթահար· երկնահար, կամ կայծակնահար
      struck by heaven or lightning

Declension

Descendants

References

  • Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), շանթահար”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), շանթահար”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Eremia Mełrecʿi (1698), շանթահար”, in Baṙgirkʿ hayocʿ [Armenian Dictionary] (in Armenian), Livorno: tpagr. Sargis Evdokiacʿu Sahetʿču, page 243
  • Amalyan, Hayk (1975) Baṙgirkʿ hayocʿ (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 247
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 513