գաւազան

From Middle Iranian *gāwāzan (“spiked stick used for driving oxen”). Compare Classical Persian گوازه‎ (gawāza), گاوزنه‎ (gāwzana), Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬁𐬰𐬀‎ (gauuāza, “ox-goad”). Ultimately from Old Iranian *gāwa-āzana-.

գաւազան • (gawazan)

1. stick for driving animals
2. cudgel for beating men
3. blow, beating; punishment
4. wand; rod; staff

   գաւազան իշխանութեան ― gawazan išxanutʿean ― scepter

   գաւազան եպիսկոպոսական ― gawazan episkoposakan ― crosier

5. (figuratively) power, authority
6. the diocese overseen by a bishop
7. sprig, shoot, twig (of a tree)
8. stock, lineage
9. each color-stripe of the rainbow

• խարազան (xarazan)

• Armenian: գավազան (gavazan)
  • → Udi: [script needed] (käväzän, “(ecclesiastical) wand, staff”)
  • → Kurdish:

    Northern Kurdish: kevezan

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “գաւազան”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “գաւազան”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “գաւազան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 525–526