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վստահ

վստահ

Armenian

Adjective

վստահ (vstah) (superlative ամենավստահ)

  1. sure, certain, confident
    Վստահ չեմ, թե հասկանում ես։
    Vstah čʿem, tʿe haskanum es.
    I'm not sure you understand.

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Derived terms

Related terms

  • վստահություն (vstahutʿyun)

See also


Old Armenian

Etymology

From Middle Iranian *vistāhv, from Old Iranian *vistāhuva-. Compare Middle Persian wstʾhw' (wistāx, confident, bold), Manichaean Middle Persian wystʾh (wistāx), Persian گستاخ (gostâx). See also ստահակ (stahak).

Adjective

վստահ (vstah)

  1. confident, trusting
    վստահ լինելvstah linel ― to be sure, reassured; to trust
    վստահ առնելvstah aṙnel ― to strengthen, to reassure, to remove one's fears, to give one's word for
    վստահ եմ զիvstah em zi ― I am sure, I am convinced that, I do not doubt that
    վստահ լերուք յիսvstah lerukʿ yis ― rely, reckon on me
    ոչ էր վստահ յերեւելիսսočʿ ēr vstah yereweliss ― he had not placed his hopes in wordily things

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Descendants

References

  • Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), վստահ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 684b
  • Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1837), վստահ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 831b
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 249
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  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), վստահ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935, pages 349–350
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “wistāx”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 92
  • J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010), վստահ”, in Sargsyan, Vahan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, ISBN 978-9939-50-121-5, page 714