արձակ

From Old Armenian արձակ (arjak).

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• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /ɑɾˈt͡sʰɑk/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /ɑɾˈt͡sɑɡ/,

արձակ • (arjak) (superlative ամենաարձակ)

1. free, loose, untied

   արձակ ձեռքեր ― arjak jeṙkʻer ― free hands

2. vast, spacious
3. prosaic (pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose)

արձակ • (arjak)

1. prose

   Coordinate term: բանաստեղծություն (banasteġcutʻyun)

• արձակագիր (arjakagir, “prose writer”)

An Iranian borrowing. Compare Manichaean Parthian (hyrz- /⁠hirz-⁠/, “to let, leave, abandon; remit (of sins), establish, appoint”), Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬰𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (har^əzaⁱti, “to dismiss, to let go”), Persian هلیدن (helidan, “to dismiss, to abandon; to let go”), هشتن (heštan, “to leave, abandon”), Sanskrit सृजति (sṛjati, “discharge, emit”), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *selǵ-. The -զ- (-z-) in the derived term համարզակիմ (hamarzakim) has an etymological value.

արձակ • (arjak)

1. free, loose, untied

   արձակ արձակ ― arjak arjak ― freely

2. bold; unbridled, licentious, rash, dissolute, debauched

   արձակ համարձակ ― arjak hamarjak ― boldly, frankly

3. open, unsealed (e.g. letter)
4. (post-Classical) vast, spacious
5. (post-Classical, of language) prosaic

   արձակ բան ― arjak ban ― prose

6. (post-Classical, of a day) ferial

• ապահարզան (apaharzan)
• համհարզ (hamharz)

• Armenian: արձակ (arjak)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “արձակ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 75ab
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “արձակ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “արձակ”, 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 324–325