արդար

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Armenian

Etymology

From Old Armenian արդար (ardar).

Pronunciation

Adjective

արդար (ardar) (superlative ամենաարդար)

  1. just, fair, honest
    արդար դատավորardar datavorimpartial/fair judge
    արդար ընտրություններardar əntrutʻyunnerfair elections
    արդար որոշումardar orošumfair decision
    արդար գինardar ginfair price
  2. innocent, blameless

Declension

Related terms

Old Armenian

Etymology

Usually explained as a native formation արդ (ard, structure, form, arrangement) +‎ -ար (-ar); the sense of “material regularity, structuredness” developed here into “moral regularity, uprightness”. But Iranian etymologies have also been proposed. Note also Old Georgian მართალი (martali).

Adjective

արդար (ardar)

  1. just, righteous

Declension

Adverb

արդար (ardar)

  1. justly, equitably, truly

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Armenian: արդար (ardar)

References

  1. ^ Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, pages 423–424
  2. ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “արդ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 306–308
  3. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 57
  4. ^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 134–135
  5. ^ Considine, Patrick (1979) “A semantic approach to the identification of Iranian loanwords in Armenian”, in Bela Brogyanyi, editor, Studies in Diachronic, Synchronic, and Typological Linguistics: Festschrift for Oswald Szemérenyi on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory; 11)‎, volume I, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, page 226, footnote 12
  6. ^ 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 868

Further reading

  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “արդար”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “արդար”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 309b
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “արդար”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy