հեշտ

From Old Armenian հեշտ (hešt).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /heʃt/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /heʃd/,

հեշտ • (hešt) (superlative ամենահեշտ)

1. easy, not hard, light

   հեշտ վարժություն ― hešt varžutʻyun ― easy exercise

• դժվար (džvar)

The origin is unknown.^[1][2]

Perhaps an Iranian borrowing.^[3] Compare Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫍𐫏𐫢𐫤𐫗 (hyštn /⁠hištan⁠/, “to leave, abandon; remit (of sins); establish, appoint; let, allow”), Persian هشتن (heštan, “to leave, abandon; to let, allow”), Parthian 𐫍𐫏𐫘𐫤 (hyst /⁠hišt⁠/), past participle of 𐫍𐫏𐫡𐫉- (hyrz-, “to let, leave, abandon; remit (of sins), establish, appoint”), all from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sárȷ́ati. Compare Old Armenian հեշտպաշտակ (heštpaštak, “voluntary servant”), which may contain the same Iranian root.

հեշտ • (hešt)

1. pleasing, agreeable

   Synonyms: հեշտալի (heštali), հեշտական (heštakan), դիւր (diwr), դիւրին (diwrin), դիւրիչ (diwričʻ), կամակ (kamak), ընդունելի (ənduneli), ցանկալի (cʻankali), քաղցր (kʻałcʻr), ախորժ (axorž)

   հեշտ պաշտօն ― hešt paštōn ― volunteer service

   հեշտ ցանկութիւն ― hešt cʻankutʻiwn ― voluptuousness, concupiscence, lust

   հեշտ եւ համբոյր մտօք ― hešt ew hamboyr mtōkʻ ― affably, benignly, kindly, condescendingly

   զհեշտ ցանկութեան զհետ անցանել ― zhešt cʻankutʻean zhet ancʻanel ― to give oneself up to pleasures

2. (post-Classical) easy

հեշտ • (hešt)

1. pleasure

   Synonyms: դիւրութիւն (diwrutʻiwn), հաճութիւն (hačutʻiwn), հաճոյք (hačoykʻ)

   ըստ հեշտի ― əst hešti ― at will, at pleasure, at one's ease

   ըստ իւրեանց հեշտի գնալ ― əst iwreancʻ hešti gnal ― to go one's own way, at one's leisure, at one's ease; to live as one likes, to follow the bent of one's own inclinations

• Armenian: հեշտ (hešt)

• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1837) “հեշտ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 85c
• Ġazarean, Ṙubēn (2000) “հեշտ”, in G. B. Tʻosunean, editor, Grabari baṙaran [Dictionary of Old Armenian] (in Armenian), volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 63a
• Ġazarean, Ṙubēn (2006) “հեշտ”, in Grabari homanišneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Old Armenian Synonyms], Yerevan: University Press, page 423b
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “հեշտ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 400b