գզաթ

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian գզաթ (gzatʿ).

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [ɡəˈzɑtʰ]
• (Western Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [kʰəˈzɑtʰ]

գզաթ • (gzatʿ) (rare, archaic)

1. fleece, wool

• ասր (asr)
• բուրդ (burd)

• Ałayan, Ēduard (1976), “գզաթ”, in Ardi hayereni bacʿatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 235c
• Barsełyan, Hovhannes (1973), “գզաթ”, in Hayeren ułłagrakan-ułłaxosakan, terminabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Orthographic–Orthoepic Terminological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Luys, page 222a
• “գզաթ”, in Žamanakakicʿ hayocʿ lezvi bacʿatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, 1969–1980, page 396b
• Čērēčean, Gnēl; Tōnikean, Pʿaramaz (1992), “գզաթ”, in Hayocʿ lezui nor baṙaran [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, Beirut: G. Doniguian & Fils, page 388b

A borrowing from Classical Syriac ܓܙܬܐ‎ (gezzəθā, “fleece, wool”). See also կիզն (kizn).

գզաթ • (gzatʿ)

1. fleece, wool
   • 5th century, Bible, Judges 6.37:

     Ահա դնեմ գզաթ մի ասուի ի կալ․ եթէ լինիցի անձրեւ ի վերայ գզաթուն միայն եւ ի վերայ ամենայն երկրի ցամաքութիւն, գիտացից եթէ փրկեսցես ձեռամբ իմով զԻսրայէլ՝ որպէս եւ խօսեցար։

     Aha dnem gzatʿ mi asui i kal; etʿē linicʿi anjrew i veray gzatʿun miayn ew i veray amenayn erkri cʿamakʿutʿiwn, gitacʿicʿ etʿē pʿrkescʿes jeṙamb imov zIsrayēl, orpēs ew xōsecʿar.

     • Translation by Brenton Septuagint Translation

       Behold, I put the fleece of wool in the threshing-floor: if there be dew on the fleece only, and drought on all the ground, I shall know that thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as thou hast said.

• → Armenian: գզաթ (gzatʿ) (learned)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “գզաթ”, 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 547a
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010), “գզաթ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 158b
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836), “գզաթ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 549c
• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “գզաթ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 118b
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 302
• Malxaseancʿ, Stepʿan (1944), “գզաթ”, in Hayerēn bacʿatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: State Publishing House, page 432a
• Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 931
• Olsen, Birgit Anette (2017-07-26), “Armenian Textile Terminology”, in Gaspa, Salvatore; Michel, Cécile; Nosch, Marie-Louise, editors, Textile Terminologies from the Orient to the Mediterranean and Europe, 1000 BC to 1000 AD‎, Lincoln, Nebraska: Zea Books, →DOI, →ISBN, page 190