Ասպուրակէս

Old Armenian

Alternative forms

• Ասպուրակ (Aspurak), Ասպուրակիս (Aspurakis)
• Վասպուրակիսի (Vaspurakisi, genitive)

Etymology

PIE word
*h₁éḱwos

Borne by Armenian persons in the 4th and 5th centuries AD.

Certainly an Iranian name with a Grecized ending -էս (-ēs), but the details remain unclear.

Justi connects with Old Persian 𐎠𐎿𐎲𐎠𐎼 (a-s-b-a-r /⁠asabāra-⁠/), Middle Persian ʾswbʾl (aswār, “horseman”). This is not accepted by Ačaṙyan, who leaves the origin open.

Abaev and Nalbandjan derive by metathesis from Alanic *Æsfӕruk (see Proto-Sarmatian *Asφaurūk).

Related to Inscriptional Parthian 𐭀𐭎𐭐𐭅𐭓𐭊 (ʾspwrk /⁠Aspōrak⁠/).

Compare also the name Ասպրակոս (Asprakos).

Proper noun

Ասպուրակէս • (Aspurakēs)

1. a male given name, Aspurakes, Aspurak

Declension

a-type

	singular (uncountable)
nominative	Ասպուրակէս (Aspurakēs)
genitive	Ասպուրակայ (Aspurakay)
dative	Ասպուրակայ (Aspurakay)
accusative	Ասպուրակէս (Aspurakēs)
ablative	Ասպուրակայ (Aspurakay)
instrumental	Ասպուրակաւ (Aspurakaw)
locative	Ասպուրակէս (Aspurakēs)

Related terms

• հասբ (hasb)

Descendants

• Armenian: Ասպուրակես (Aspurakes)

References

• Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1942) “Ասպուրակէս”, in Hayocʻ anjnanunneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Personal Names of Armenians] (Erewani petakan hamalsaran. Gitakan ašxatutʻyunner; 21) (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 231
• Justi, Ferdinand (1895) Iranisches Namenbuch‎^[1] (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 47a
• Abajev, V. I. (1949) Осетинский язык и фольклор I [Ossetian Language and Folklore I]‎^[2] (in Russian), Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 157
• Nalbandjan, G. M. (1977) “Армянские личные имена скифо-алано-осетинского происхождения [Armenian Personal Names of Scytho-Alano-Ossetian Origin]”, in N. Ja. Gabarajev, editor, Вопросы иранской и общей филологии (in Russian), Tbilisi: Academy Press, page 208