Աշխէն

From Middle Median *axšēn, from Proto-Iranian *xšaHiθniH (whence Ossetian ӕхсин (æxsin, “lady, mistress”)), from *xšáHyeti (“to rule”) Alternatively from the homonym *xšayθniH (“shining, magnificent, splendid”), from *xšáytah (“shining”), whence also Old Armenian աշխէտ (ašxēt), Ossetian ӕхсид (æxsid, “dawn”).

Աշխէն • (Ašxēn)

1. A female given name

• Armenian: Աշխեն (Ašxen)

• Sebastacʿi, Mxitʿar (1769), “Աշխէն”, in Baṙgirkʿ Haykazean lezui. Baṙaran yatuk anuancʿ [Dictionary of the Armenian Language. Dictionary of Proper Names] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Perixanjan, A. G. (1993) Materialy k etimologičeskomu slovarju drevnearmjanskovo jazyka. Častʹ I [Materials for the Etymological Dictionary of the Old Armenian Language. Part 1] (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 18