որոգայթ

• վորոգայթ (vorogaytʻ) — 1922–1940 reformed orthography

From Old Armenian որոգայթ (orogaytʻ).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /voɾoˈɡɑjtʰ/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /voɾoˈkɑjt/,
• Hyphenation: ո‧րո‧գայթ

որոգայթ • (orogaytʻ)

1. (somewhat formal) snare, trap

The origin is uncertain. The second part may be գայթ (gaytʻ, “delusion; trap”).

որոգայթ • (orogaytʻ)

1. snare, trap

   անկանել յորոգայթ ― ankanel yorogaytʻ ― to fall into a snare

   լարել զորոգայթ եւ ի նոյն հարկանիլ, շաղիլ ― larel zorogaytʻ ew i noyn harkanil, šałil ― to fall into one's own snares

   որոգայթ դնել ումեք բանիւք ― orogaytʻ dnel umekʻ baniwkʻ ― to convict a person by his own words

• Armenian: որոգայթ (orogaytʻ)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “որոգայթ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “որոգայթ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “որոգայթ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 386
• Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate‎, PhD dissertation, Leiden University, page 63