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Armenian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Old Armenian վստահ (vstah). Doublet of վստա (vsta) and բստա (bsta).
Pronunciation
Adjective
վստահ • (vstah) (superlative ամենավստահ)
- sure, certain, confident
- Վստահ չեմ, թե հասկանում ես։ ― Vstah čʻem, tʻe haskanum es. ― I'm not sure you understand.
Declension
Adverb
վստահ • (vstah)
- boldly, confidently
Derived terms
See also
Old Armenian
Etymology
From Middle Iranian *vistāhv, from Old Iranian *vistāhuva-. Compare Middle Persian (wstʾhw' /wistāx/), 𐫇𐫏𐫘𐫤𐫀𐫍 (wystʾh /wistāx/, “confident, bold”), Persian گستاخ (gostâx). See also բստա (bsta).
Adjective
վստահ • (vstah)
- confident, trusting
- վստահ լինել ― vstah linel ― to be sure, reassured; to trust
- վստահ առնել ― vstah aṙnel ― to strengthen, to reassure, to remove one's fears, to give one's word for
- վստահ եմ զի ― vstah em zi ― I am sure, I am convinced that, I do not doubt that
- վստահ լերուք յիս ― vstah lerukʻ yis ― rely, reckon on me
- ոչ էր վստահ յերեւելիսս ― očʻ ēr vstah yereweliss ― he had not placed his hopes in wordily things
Derived terms
Descendants
- Armenian: վստահ (vstah) (literary), վստա (vsta) (dialectal)
References
- Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “վստահ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 684b
- Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1837) “վստահ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 831b
- Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 249
- J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 547
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “վստահ”, 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 349–350
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “wistāx”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 92
- J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “վստահ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 714