ասպատակ

From Old Armenian ասպատակ (aspatak).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /ɑspɑˈtɑk/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /ɑsbɑˈdɑɡ/,

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ասպատակ • (aspatak)

1. raider, plunderer
2. raid, inroad, incursion

• ասպատ (aspat) (post-classical)

From Iranian *aspataka-, composed of *asp (“horse”) + *tak- (“to run”). For the constituents compare Persian اسپ (asp, “horse”) and Middle Persian tk' (tag, “running; attack”), Persian تکیدن (takidan, “to run”), تک (tak, “run”).

ասպատակ • (aspatak)

1. inroad, incursion (on horse)

   ասպատակ տալ, դնել, սփռել, գծել, արձակել, առնել ― aspatak tal, dnel, spʻṙel, gcel, arjakel, aṙnel ― to go marauding, to infest

2. raider, plunderer (on horse)

   ասպատակ ծովու ― aspatak covu ― corsair, pirate, sea-robber

• հասբ (hasb)
• նահատակ (nahatak)

• Armenian: ասպատակ (aspatak)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ասպատակ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “ասպատակ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “ասպատակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press