հնազանդ

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian հնազանդ (hnazand).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /hənɑˈzɑnd/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /hənɑˈzɑnt/,

հնազանդ • (hnazand) (superlative ամենահնազանդ)

1. obedient

Borrowed from an Iranian word of the form *hu-nazand. For the constituents compare Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hsu- and Persian نژند (nežand, nažand, “timid, weak, infirm; sad, cast down”), Sogdian (nznt /⁠nizand⁠/, “humble”).

հնազանդ • (hnazand)

1. obedient, submissive

   Synonyms: հլու (hlu), հպատակ (hpatak)

   հնազանդ առնել ― hnazand aṙnel ― to cause to obey, to make oneself obeyed

   հնազանդ լինել ― hnazand linel ― to obey, to yield, to be obedient, docile

   հնազանդ առնել ընդ իւրեւ ― hnazand aṙnel ənd iwrew ― to compel obedience, to reduce or bring to obedience

• → Armenian: հնազանդ (hnazand)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “հնազանդ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 104a
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “հնազանդ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ġazarean, Ṙ. S. (2006) “հնազանդ”, in Grabari homanišneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Old Armenian Synonyms], Yerevan: University Press
• Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 303
• Thomson, Robert W. (1989) An Introduction to Classical Armenian, 2nd edition, Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, page 218
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “հնազանդ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy