բարակ

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [bɑˈɾɑk]
• (Western Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [pʰɑˈɾɑɡ]

From Old Armenian բարակ (barak).

բարակ • (barak) (superlative ամենաբարակ)

1. thin

   բարակ թել ― barak tʿel ― thin needle

2. narrow

   բարակ ճանապարհ ― barak čanaparh ― narrow road

3. fine, delicate

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “բարակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 418a

Borrowed from Old Armenian բարակ (barak).

բարակ • (barak)

1. a kind of hunting dog

• “բարակ”, in Žamanakakicʿ hayocʿ lezvi bacʿatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, 1969–1980

From Middle Iranian *bārak, a by-form of Middle Persian bʾlyk (bārīg/k, “thin, fine subtle”). Compare Persian باریک‎ (bârik, “thin, slender, minute”), Pashto بارَگ‎ (bāraġ, “thin, delicate, fine”).

For the sense development in բարակ ցաւ (barak cʿaw, “phthisis”) compare Turkish ince ağrı (“tuberculosis”, literally “thin pain”).

բարակ • (barak)

1. thin, slender, delicate, subtile

   բարակ ցաւ, ջերմ ― barak cʿaw, ǰerm ― phthisis

• Armenian: բարակ (barak)

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “բարակ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “բարակ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “բարակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 418a

Ałayan derives from Middle Persian bʾlk' (bārak, “*fast-moving; steed”). Accepted by J̌ahukyan.

For the sense development “dog” → “fornicator” compare շուն (šun, “dog; adulterer”).

• փարագ (pʿarag), փարաք (pʿarakʿ)
• պառաք (paṙakʿ), պարակ (parak), պարաք (parakʿ)

բարակ • (barak)

1. hunting dog
   • 5th century, Ełišē, Vasn Vardanay ew Hayocʿ paterazmin [History of Vardan and the Armenian War] 8:

     Սպառեցան բարակք որսականք եւ խցեալ կուրացան արշաւանք որսորդաց […]

     Spaṙecʿan barakkʿ orsakankʿ ew xcʿeal kuracʿan aršawankʿ orsordacʿ […]

2. (figuratively) fornicator; lascivious, wanton, dissolute

• փարաքեան (pʿarakʿean), փարաքումն (pʿarakʿumn)

• Armenian: բարակ (barak)

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “բարակ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “բարակ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “բարակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 418b
• Ałayan, Ēduard (1974) Baṙakʿnnakan ew stugabanakan hetazotutʿyunner [Lexicological and Etymological Studies]‎ (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 36–41
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010), “բարակ²”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 120a

բարակ • (barak)

1. Alternative form of բորակ (borak)