աթոռ

From Old Armenian աթոռ (atʿoṙ).

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աթոռ • (atʿoṙ)

1. chair
2. (rare) throne

• բազկաթոռ (bazkatʿoṙ)
• ճոճաթոռ (čočatʿoṙ)

The origin is uncertain.

Windischmann compared with Ancient Greek θρόνος (thrónos, “seat, throne”). The comparison was revived by Marr, who derived both from a “Japhetic” root in the framework of his discredited Japhetic theory.

Müller derived from Aramaic אתר‎ (ʾtr), אתרא‎ (ʾtrʾ, “place”), Classical Syriac ܐܬܪ‎ (ʾăṯar), ܐܬܪܐ‎ (ʾaṯrā, “place”), for the sense development comparing Persian گاه‎ (gâh, “throne; place”). This was rejected by de Lagarde, Hübschmann and Ačaṙean, who left the origin open.

Hiwnkʿearpēyēntean derived from Turkish oturmak (“to take a sit”), oturak (“seat, stool”). Ačaṙean rejected the comparison because the older forms of the Turkic word contain an -l-: compare Chagatai اولتورمق‎ (olturmaq, “to sit”).

Karst connected with Sumerian [script needed] (tur, “triclinium”).

J̌ahukyan and Olsen mark the origin as unknown, with J̌ahukyan remarking that աթոռ (atʿoṙ) is a late acquisition absent from Proto-Armenian.

աթոռ • (atʿoṙ)

1. chair, seat; bench; throne

   նստուցանել յաթոռ ― nstucʿanel yatʿoṙ ― to make one sit on a throne or chair; to throne

   նստել յաթոռ ― nstel yatʿoṙ ― to sit on a chair or throne

   աթոռս արկանել ― atʿoṙs arkanel ― to give seats or chairs

   ելանել յաթոռոյ ― elanel yatʿoṙoy ― to rise up, to get up

2. a seat used in evacuating the bowels or in urinating, stool
3. (Biblical tradition) throne (the third highest order of angel in Christian angelology, ranked above minions and below cherubim)

• Armenian: աթոռ (atʿoṙ)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “աթոռ”, 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, page 89ab
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “աթոռ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “աթոռ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 4b
• de Lagarde, Paul (1877) Armenische Studien (in German), Göttingen: Dieterich, § 23, page 7
• Hiwnkʿearpēyēntean, Yovhannēs (1894), “աթոռ”, in Stugabanakan baṙaran hayocʿ lezui [Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), Constantinople: Tparan G. Paɫtatlean, pages 153–154
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 300
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʿ lezvi patmutʿyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 264
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010), “աթոռ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 24b
• Karst, Josef (1911), “Zur ethnischen Stellung der Armenier”, in Akinean, Nersēs, editor, Huschardzan. Festschrift aus Anlass des 100-jahrigen Bestandes der Mechitaristen-Kongregation in Wien (1811–1911), und des 25. Jahrganges der philosophischen Monatsschrift Handes amsorya (1887–1911) (in German), Vienna: Verl. der Mechitaristen-Kongregation, page 408
• Marr, N. Ja. (1935) Izbrannyje raboty [Selected Works]‎ (in Russian), volume V, Leningrad, Moscow: Gosudarstvennoje socialʹno-ekonomičeskoje izdatelʹstvo, pages 76, 363
• Müller, Friedrich (1863), “Beiträge zur Lautlehre der armenischen Sprache”, in Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Classe (in German), volume 41, page 11
• Müller, Friedrich (1894), “Pahlawi, neupersische und armenische Etymologien”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes (in German), volume 8, page 280
• Windischmann, Friedrich (1846) Über die Grundlage des Armenischen im arischen Sprachstamme (in German), München: Königlich-Bayerische Akad. der Wiss., page 12