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Old Armenian
Etymology
Of Hurro-Urartian origin. Compare Hurrian 𒊍𒋛𒊑 (as-si-ri /assiri, (pl: sarre)/, “live booty, captive”), itself from Akkadian 𒇽𒀀𒋛𒊒 (LU2a-si-ru /asīru/, “captive, prisoner of war, one who is taken in bonds; foreign worker”), from Proto-Semitic *ʔasīr- (“captive”).
Noun
ծառայ • (caṙay)
- servant; slave
5th century,
Bible,
Job 40.28:
[1]- նուաճիցե՞ս զնա ծառայ յաւիտենական։
- nuačicʻe?s zna caṙay yawitenakan.
- Translation by Claude E. Cox
- Will you subdue it as your perpetual slave?
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Cox, Claude E. (2006) Armenian Job: reconstructed Greek text, critical edition of the Armenian with English translation (Hebrew University Armenian studies; 8), Leuven – Paris – Dudley, MA: Peeters, page 260
Further reading
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “ծառայ”, 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) “ծառայ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
- Diakonoff, Igor M. (1985) “Hurro-Urartian Borrowings in Old Armenian”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume 105, number 4, pages 597–603
- Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ծառայ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
- Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate, PhD dissertation, Leiden University, pages 25-26