վարձակ

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian վարձակ (varjak).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /vɑɾˈt͡sʰɑk/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /vɑɾˈt͡sɑɡ/,

վարձակ • (varjak)

1. (historical) vardzak

• Xačʻatryan, Ž. (1985) “վարձակ”, in Hambarjumyan V. H. et al., editors, Haykakan sovetakan hanragitaran [Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia] (in Armenian), volume XI, Yerevan: Haykakan sovetakan hanragitarani glxavor xmbagrutʻyun, page 340bc

• վարձան (varjan)
• վարձական (varjakan)

From Middle Iranian *varzāk, which, according to Asatryan, is an agent noun from the root *warj- (“to do; to work”). For the suffix see -ակ (-ak). Byzantine Greek βάρζα (bárza) found in the Suda lexicon as a synonym of ψάλτρια (psáltria, “female harper”) is of the same origin.

վարձակ • (varjak)

1. vardzak
   • 5th century, Bible, 2 Samuel 19.35:

     կամ թէ լսիցե՞մ տակաւին զձայն գուսանաց եւ վարձակաց

     […] kam tʻē lsicʻe^?m takawin zjayn gusanacʻ ew varjakacʻ […]

     Can I still hear the voices of gusans and vardzaks?

• → Armenian: վարձակ (varjak) (learned)

• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “վարձակ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 245
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “վարձակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, pages 322–323
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “վարձակ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 707
• Асатрян, Г. С. (2013) “Парфянское gōsān [Parthian gōsān]”, in С. Р. Тохтасьев, П. Б. Лурье, editors, Commentationes Iranicae. Сборник статей к 90-летию Владимира Ароновича Лившица‎ (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Nestor-Istoriya, →ISBN, page 103 of 102–105
• Hambarjumyan V. H. et al., editors (1985), “վարձակ”, in Haykakan sovetakan hanragitaran [Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia] (in Armenian), volume XI, Yerevan: Haykakan sovetakan hanragitarani glxavor xmbagrutʻyun, page 340bc