Ասպուրակէս

Old Armenian

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

Etymology

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 *Asparuk.

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)

Descendants
  • Armenian: Ասպուրակես (Aspurakes)

References
  • Ačaṙyan, Hračʿya (1942), “Ասպուրակէս”, in Hayocʿ anjnanunneri baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Personal Names] (Erewani petakan hamalsaran. Gitakan ašxatutʿyunner; 21) (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 231
  • Justi, Ferdinand (1895) Iranisches Namenbuch (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 47a
  • Abajev, V. I. (1949) Osetinskij jazyk i folʹklor I [Ossetian Language and Folklore I]‎ (in Russian), Moscow, Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, page 157
  • Nalbandjan, G. M. (1977), “Armjanskije ličnyje imena skifo-alano-osetinskovo proisxoždenija [Armenian Personal Names of Scytho-Alano-Ossetian Origin]”, in Gabarajev N. Ja., editor, Voprosy iranskoj i obščej filologii (in Russian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 208
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