շուշտ

Armenian

From Classical Persian (šušt, “vile, detestable, deformed, shameful, bad”).^[1]

շուշտ • (šušt) (dialectal, obsolete)

^ Eġia Mušeġyan Karnecʻi (1986) B. L. Čʻugaszyan, editor, Tʻurkʻeren-hayeren baṙaran [Turkic–Armenian dictionary], Yerevan: Academy Press, page 146
^ Eġia Mušeġyan Karnecʻi (1986) B. L. Čʻugaszyan, editor, Tʻurkʻeren-hayeren baṙaran [Turkic–Armenian dictionary], Yerevan: Academy Press, page 67

The origin is uncertain. Likely related to Old Armenian շուշեմ (šušem, “to be neglectful”) and both possibly borrowed from Iranian: compare Classical Persian (sust, “feeble, weak; lazy, idle; slow; relaxed, negligent”). Middle Armenian շուշտանդամ (šuštandam, “impotent”) is certainly considered a borrowing from the synonymous Persian (sost-andâm).

շուշտ • (šušt)

uncertain, dithering
- 5th century, Eusebius of Emesa, Čaṙkʻ [Homilies] 5.Vasn čʻarčʻaranacʻn [De passione].6:^[1]^[2]
  Ո՞վ, ասեն, եբաց զդորա զաչսդ։ Ի շո՛ւշտ կային, յուրաստ լինէին․ Մեք ոչ գիտեմք․ զդա՛ իսկ հարցէք
  O^?v, asen, ebacʻ zdora začʻsd. I šúšt kayin, yurast linēin; Mekʻ očʻ gitemkʻ; zdá isk harcʻēkʻ
  Who, they asked, opened his eyes? They dithered and disavowed: we don't know, ask him yourselves.

⇒ Armenian: շուշտակ (šuštak), շուշտիկ (šuštik, “silly, light-headed”); շուշտեմ (šuštem, “I don't know whether, methinks”)

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^ Hovhannisyan, L. Š. (2010) “շուշտ”, in Grabari baṙaran. Nor haykazyan baṙaranum čʻvkayvac baṙer [Dictionary of Old Armenian. Words Unattested in the New Haykazyan Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Edit Print, page 223a, the homily number misprinted as '7' instead of '5'

Awgerean, Mkrtičʻ, Čēlalean, Grigor (1865) “շուշտ”, in Aṙjeṙn baṙaran haykaznean lezui [Pocket Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 640a
Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “շուշտ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 537a
Dervischjan, P. Seraphin (1877) Armeniaca I: Das Altarmenische (in German), Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, pages 103–104
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Hiwnkʻearpēyēntean, Yovhannēs (1894) “անշուշտ”, in Stugabanakan baṙaran hayocʻ lezui [Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Language]‎^[2] (in Armenian), Constantinople: G. Paġtatlean Press, page 303a
Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “շուշտ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 553a
Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2007), “շուշտ”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume IV, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 304a