ազգ

Inherited from Old Armenian ազգ (azg).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /ɑzɡ/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /ɑsk/,

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ազգ • (azg)

1. nation, people

   Միավորված ազգերի կազմակերպություն ― Miavorvac azgeri kazmakerputʻyun ― United Nations

2. (dated or dialectal) family, kin, clan

   Synonyms: տոհմ (tohm), գերդաստան (gerdastan)

3. (dated) species

   Synonym: տեսակ (tesak)

An Iranian borrowing: compare Middle Persian (ʾzg /⁠azg⁠/, “branch”), Central Kurdish, Southern Kurdish ھەژگ (hejg, “dried tree branch”), Persian آزغ (âzğ, “a thing lopped (as vine-prunings); slip, cutting, scion”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hádᶻgas.

ազգ • (azg)

1. nation, people

   ազգ հայոց ― azg hayocʻ ― the Armenian nation

   ազգք և ազինք ― azgkʻ ew azinkʻ ― all nations, all people

   անգլիացի յազգէ ― angliacʻi yazgē ― of the English nation, English

   ամերիկացի եմ ազգաւ ― amerikacʻi em azgaw ― I am American by birth

   գիրք ազգաց ― girkʻ azgacʻ ― Book of Judges

   ազգով ― azgov ― with all the nations

2. generation, race, tribe

   յազգէ յազգ ― yazgē yazg ― from age to age, from generation to generation

3. kind, sort

   ազգ կանանց ― azg kanancʻ ― the female sex, the fair sex, the womankind

   ազգ մարդկան ― azg mardkan ― the humankind, humanity

   ազգք ազգք բանասիրութեան ― azgkʻ azgkʻ banasirutʻean ― the different kinds of literature

4. manner, way

   մի ազգ ― mi azg ― the same, the same manner, equally

   ազգ ազգ ― azg azg ― various, different, manifold

• Armenian: ազգ (azg)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “ազգ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 84—85
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836) “ազգ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, pages 6–7
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 16
• Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 862
• Patrubány, L. v. (1902/1903) “Idg. *e/ozg¹h im Armenischen”, in Indogermanische Forschungen (in German), volume 13, pages 124–125
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ազգ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, pages 2–3
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 786