գարշապար

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian գարշապար (garšapar).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /ɡɑɾʃɑˈpɑɾ/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /kɑɾʃɑˈbɑɾ/,

գարշապար • (garšapar)

1. (archaic) heel

   աքիլեսյան գարշապար ― akʻilesyan garšapar ― Achilles heel

• կրունկ (krunk)

The *պար (*par) part is from Parthian 𐫛𐫀𐫅 (pāδ, “foot”). For *գարշ- (*garš-) Perikhanian suggests derivation from Middle Iranian hypothetical *garš- (“hard touch, friction, rubbing; hardness, resistance”), which may be related to Sanskrit घर्ष (gharṣa, “rubbing”) and perhaps Old Armenian գարշ (garš). The compound can be interpreted as “the hard part of the foot” or “the part of the foot used for treading the earth”.

գարշապար • (garšapar)

1. heel
2. footstep

• նեղագարշապար (nełagaršapar)

• → Armenian: գարշապար (garšapar)

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• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “գարշապար”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
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