Արուսեակ
Old Armenian
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from an Iranian descendant of Proto-Indo-Iranian *Harušás. The exact word formation underlying the Armenian is disputed.
Proper noun
[edit]Արուսեակ • (Aruseak)
- Venus (planet); morning star; evening star
- (figuratively) the Sun
- (figuratively) John the Baptist; baptism
- (figuratively) Lucifer (the devil)
- a female given name
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]- արուսական (arusakan)
- արուսեկաձեւ (arusekajew)
Related terms
[edit]- արշալուրշ (aršalurš) (possibly)
Descendants
[edit]- → Armenian: Արուսյակ (Arusyak) (learned)
References
[edit]- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “Արուսեակ”, 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 333–334
- Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “Արուսեակ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
- J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period][1] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 517
- J̌axǰaxean, Manuēl (1837) “Արուսեակ”, in Baṙgirkʻ i barbaṙ hay ew italakan [Armenian–Italian Dictionary], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
- Karst, Josef (1948) Mythologie arméno-caucasienne et hétito-asianique (in French), Strasbourg, Zurich: Editions P. H. Heitz, page 93
- Martirosyan, Hrach (2021) “Aruseak”, in Iranian personal names in Armenian collateral tradition (Iranisches Personennamenbuch, Band V, Faszikel 3), Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, § 106, page 120
- 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, pages 373–374
- Perixanjan, A. G. (1993) Материалы к этимологическому словарю древнеармянского языка. Часть I [Materials for the Etymological Dictionary of the Old Armenian Language. Part 1][2] (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 22-26, considers the original meaning of the word to be “shining, light-emitting; luminary”, and derives from *արոյսի (*aroysi), from Middle Median *arōsī (“dawn”), from Proto-Iranian *ráwsiH (“radiance; dawn; morning”), +-ակ (-ak); compare Sanskrit रुचि (ruci)
- Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “Արուսեակ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy