խաթեր

Armenian

Etymology

A dialectal dative singular of խաթր (xatʿr). Used the same way in other languages: compare Persian بخاطر‎ (be-xâter), Azerbaijani xətrinə, Turkish hatırı için (“for the sake of”).

Pronunciation

Postposition

խաթեր • (xatʿer) (dialectal)

  1. for the sake of
    քո խաթեր ― kʿo xatʿer ― for your sake
    • ca. 1680–1684, Baṙ girg taliani [An Armenian–Italian Dictionary published in Venice] page 56:[1]
      վս իմխաթերն[sic]․ փէռլամօռմիօ
      vs imxatʿern[sic]; pʿēṙlamōṙmiō
      վասն իմ խաթերն (vasn im xatʿern) = per l'amor mio

References
  1. Orengo, Alessandro (2019), “Il ԲԱՌ ԳԻՐԳ ՏԱԼԻԱՆԻ Un dizionario armeno-italiano del XVII secolo”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15), Leuven: Peeters, page 243

Further reading
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1902), “խաթր”, in Tʿurkʿerēni azdecʿutʿiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʿurkʿerēnē pʿoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žołovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʿeamb Vani, Łarabałi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žołovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 156
  • Malxaseancʿ, Stepʿan (1944), “խաթր”, in Hayerēn bacʿatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume II, Yerevan: State Publishing House, pages 227bc
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