վստահ

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian վստահ (vstah). Doublet of վստա (vsta) and բստա (bsta).

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [vəsˈtɑh]
• (Western Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [vəsˈtɑh]
• Hyphenation: վըս‧տահ

վստահ • (vstah) (superlative ամենավստահ)

1. sure, certain, confident

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

վստահ • (vstah)

1. boldly, confidently

• վստահություն (vstahutʿyun)

• անշուշտ (anšušt)
• իհարկե (iharke)

From Middle Iranian *vistāhv, from Old Iranian *vistāhuva-. Compare Middle Persian [script needed] (wstʾhw' /wistāx/), 𐫇𐫏𐫘𐫤𐫀𐫍‎ (wystʾh /wistāx/, “confident, bold”), Persian گستاخ‎ (gostâx). See also բստա (bsta).

վստահ • (vstah)

1. confident, trusting

   վստահ լինել ― vstah linel ― to be sure, reassured; to trust

   վստահ առնել ― vstah aṙnel ― to strengthen, to reassure, to remove one's fears, to give one's word for

   վստահ եմ զի ― vstah em zi ― I am sure, I am convinced that, I do not doubt that

   վստահ լերուք յիս ― vstah lerukʿ yis ― rely, reckon on me

   ոչ էր վստահ յերեւելիսս ― očʿ ēr vstah yereweliss ― he had not placed his hopes in wordily things

• ստահակ (stahak)

• Armenian: վստահ (vstah) (literary), վստա (vsta) (dialectal)

• 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
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʿ lezvi patmutʿyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period]‎ (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 547
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “վստահ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, 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 Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 714