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Armenian
The spelling of this entry has been normalized from բըստա̊ and բըստա̈ according to the principles established by Wiktionary's editor community or recent spelling standards of the language.
- բըստա̊ (bəstå) — dialectological notation
Etymology
Borrowed from Northern Kurdish biste, bisteh (“sure, hopeful, bold; openly, boldly”) recorded by Orbeli in Moks, which is cognate with the synonymous Central Kurdish بِستە (biste) and Persian گستاخ (gostâx, “brash”). Thus, a doublet of վստահ (vstah) and վստա (vsta).
Adverb
բստա • (bsta) (Moks)
- openly, boldly, confidently
- Synonyms: վստահ (vstah), համարձակ (hamarjak)
2012,
Armenians folktales, volume XVII, Moxoene page 377:
- Ընչ բըստա̈ կիլնը, օրըմ կըսը․ — Չըլ-Բը՛սկ, ա̈ղու քո̈ւ իրկան հո̈ւնա̈ր մա ընչկին ը։
- Ənčʻ bəstä kilnə, ōrəm kəsə; — Čʻəl-Bə́sk, äġu kʻü irkan hünär ma ənčʻkin ə.
References
- Asatrian, G., Livshits, V. (1994) “Origine du système consonantique de la langue kurde”, in Acta Kurdica, volume 1, page 103 of 81–108
- Orbeli, I. A. (2002) “biste, bisteh”, in Курдско-русский словарь [Kurdish–Russian Dictionary] (Избранные труды в двух томах; II.2) (in Russian), edited by Ž. S. Musaeljan and I. I. Cukerman from the author's manuscript written during his 1911–1912 Moks expedition, Yerevan: Academy Press, →ISBN, page 48
- Orbeli, I. A. (2002) “բըստա̊”, in Словарь наречия Мокса [Dictionary of Moks Dialect] (Избранные труды в двух томах; II.1) (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, →ISBN, page 214