շփոթ

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian շփոթ (špʻotʻ).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /ʃəˈpʰotʰ/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /ʃəˈpot/,

շփոթ • (špʻotʻ)

1. confusion, disorder, disarray, trouble

շփոթ • (špʻotʻ) (superlative ամենաշփոթ)

1. confused, disordered

• շփոթել (špʻotʻel)

• շփոյթ (špʻoytʻ) — rare

Together with Old Georgian შფოთი (špoti) borrowed from a Middle Iranian formation (probably a past participle) from the root which appears with the preverb *aH- in Parthian 𐫀𐫢𐫏𐫜𐫤 (ʾšyft /⁠āšift⁠/, “troubled”), 𐫀𐫀𐫢𐫇𐫁 (ʾʾšwb /⁠āšōβ⁠/, “turmoil, disturbance”), Middle Persian (ʾšwpt' /⁠āšuft⁠/, “turmoil”), Persian آشفتن (âšoftan, “to agitate”).^[1]

շփոթ • (špʻotʻ)

1. confusion, disorder, disarray, trouble

   շփոթս յուզել, յարուցանել ― špʻotʻs yuzel, yarucʻanel ― to excite confusion, trouble, sedition

   աղմուկ շփոթի յարուցանել ― ałmuk špʻotʻi yarucʻanel ― to make a clatter, racket or uproar, to kick up a row

   յայն աղմուկ շփոթի ― yayn ałmuk špʻotʻi ― in that disorder

շփոթ • (špʻotʻ)

1. confused, disordered

• → Armenian: շփոթ (špʻotʻ) (learned)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “շփոթ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 546ab
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “շփոթ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “շփոթ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy