ցաքատ

Armenian

A tsakat

Alternative forms

  • ցակատ (cʿakat)
  • ցաքհատ (cʿakʿhat) hypercorrect

Etymology

ցաք (cʿakʿ) + -ատ (-at)

Pronunciation

Noun

ցաքատ (cʿakʿat) (Karabakh, Lori, Ghazakh)

  1. a machete-like tool common in Artsakh used to cut (thorny) branches
    • 16–17th centuries, Eremia Mełrecʿi or Sargis Evdokiacʿi, Baṙgirkʿ hayocʿ [Armenian Dictionary] Տ.54:[1]
      տապար· կացին, կամ թապար, կամ ցաքատ (var. ցաքոտ, ցակատ), կամ նաճախ։
      tapar· kacʿin, kam tʿapar, kam cʿakʿat (var. cʿakʿot, cʿakat), kam načax.
  2. (figuratively) rough person

Declension

Derived terms

  • ցաքատավոր (cʿakʿatavor)
  • ցաքատակոթ (cʿakʿatakotʿ)

Descendants

  • Russian: цакат (cakat) (Molokans of the village Borisovka in the Ganja district)
  • Tat: saqat, saqot, soqot

References

  1. Amalyan, H. M., editor (1975) Baṙgirkʿ hayocʿ (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 308

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), ցաքի”, 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, page 452a
  • Malxaseancʿ, Stepʿan (1945), ցաքատ”, in Hayerēn bacʿatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, Yerevan: State Publishing House, page 461c
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010), “c‘ax”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 620
  • Oskanyan, Vardan (2016), “Oroš haykabanutʿyunner kovkasyan parskerenum [Some Armenisms in Caucasian Persian Language]”, in Arewelagitutʿyan harcʿer [Problems of Oriental Studies] (in Armenian), issue 12, Yerevan: University Press, pages 241–242
  • Sargsyan, Armen Yu. (2013), ցակատ”, in Łarabałi barbaṙi baṙaran [Dictionary of Karabakh Dialect] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Edit Print, →ISBN, page 746a
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