լաստ

From Old Armenian լաստ (last).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /lɑst/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /lɑsd/,

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լաստ • (last)

1. raft, float

• լաստանավ (lastanav)

From Proto-Indo-European *lasdā-. Cognates include Lithuanian lazdà (“stick, rod, staff”) and Latvian lazda (“hazel bush”). The original meaning of the Armenian word was “wood, log”, from which gradually the sense of “raft”, “to build” (in լաստեմ (lastem)), etc. developed.

լաստ • (last)

1. raft, float

   դադարք լաստի ― dadarkʻ lasti ― port, haven, harbour

2. (nautical) keel of a ship
3. bedstead

• Armenian: լաստ (last)
• Georgian: ლასტი (lasṭi)

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