ստամբակ

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian ստամբակ (stambak).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /stɑmˈbɑk/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /sdɑmˈpɑɡ/,

ստամբակ • (stambak) (superlative ամենաստամբակ)

1. (archaic) indocile, disobedient, untractable

Borrowed from Middle Persian sthmbk' (stambag, “oppressive; obstinate”). Compare Persian ستنبه (setanbah, “strong, robust, powerful, bold; litigious, unwilling to listen”), Avestan 𐬯𐬙𐬆𐬧𐬠𐬌𐬌𐬀 (stəṇbiia, “strife”) and Sanskrit स्तभ्नोति (stabhnoti, “to support, sustain, prop up”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stembʰH- (“to prop up; to be firm, unmoving”). See also ապստամբ (apstamb).

ստամբակ • (stambak)

1. indocile, morose, disobedient, reluctant, untractable, froward, restive
2. austere, rude, harsh, rigorous, severe
   • 5th century, Bible, Luke 19.21:

     Երկնչէի ի քէն, զի այր ստամբակ ես․ բառնաս՝ զոր ոչ եդիր, եւ հնձես՝ զոր ոչ սերմանեցեր։

     Erknčʻēi i kʻēn, zi ayr stambak es; baṙnas, zor očʻ edir, ew hnjes, zor očʻ sermanecʻer.

     For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow.

• Armenian: ստամբակ (stambak)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ստամբակ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “ստամբակ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “ստամբակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press