հարթ

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian հարթ (hartʻ).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /hɑɾtʰ/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /hɑɾt/,

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հարթ • (hartʻ) (superlative ամենահարթ)

1. smooth, even
2. flat
3. sleek

   Synonym: ողորկ (oġork)

• խորդուբորդ (xordubord)

հարթ • (hartʻ)

1. (rare) lowland, plain

   Synonym: հարթավայր (hartʻavayr)

• Aġayan, Ēduard (1976) “հարթ”, in Ardi hayereni bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Hayastan

• խարթ (xartʻ)

The origin in uncertain.^[1][2] Has been compared to Avestan 𐬞𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬚𐬎 (pər^əθu), Sanskrit पृथु (pṛthú, “broad”)^[3][4][5][6] and also to Georgian ფართო (parto), Mingrelian ფართე (parte), Laz ფართო (parto, “wide”),^[7][8] which may be Iranian borrowings.^[1] Perhaps borrowed from an unidentified Iranian cognate of these words.^[9]

հարթ • (hartʻ)

1. flat, even, smooth

   հարթ հաւասար ― hartʻ hawasar ― on a level with, even with

   հարթ եւ ուղիղ հասակ ― hartʻ ew ułił hasak ― fine-shaped, of a fine stature or figure

   հարթ առնել ― hartʻ aṙnel ― to level, to smooth; to facilitate

   եղիցին առապարքն ի հարթ ճանապարհս ― ełicʻin aṙaparkʻn i hartʻ čanaparhs ― the rough places shall be made smooth

հարթ • (hartʻ)

1. unitedly; evenly, plainly

• → Armenian: հարթ (hartʻ)

• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “հարթ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “հարթ”, 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, page 75