գուշակ

From Old Armenian գուշակ (gušak).

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [ɡuˈʃɑk]

գուշակ • (gušak)

1. soothsayer, diviner
2. sign, portent, presage

• “գուշակ”, in Žamanakakicʿ hayocʿ lezvi bacʿatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, 1969–1980

From Middle Iranian *gōšak, from Old Iranian *gauša-ka- (literally “listener”), from Proto-Iranian *gauš-, on which see گوش‎ (gôš). Akin to Middle Persian gwšk' (gōšag, “spy”), Ossetian хъу́сӕг (qúsæg) / и-гъосӕг (i-ǧosæg, “listener”), Georgian loanword გუშაგი (gušagi, “guardsman”) and Aramaic 𐡂𐡅𐡔𐡊𐡀‎ (gwškʾ, “a Persian official: spy”), an Old Persian loanword.

գուշակ • (gušak)

1. spy, informer

   մատն եւ գուշակ լինել ― matn ew gušak linel ― to denounce, to impeach, to accuse

2. soothsayer, diviner, prophet
3. sign, portent, presage

   գուշակ գարնայնոյ ― gušak garnaynoy ― portent of spring

• Armenian: գուշակ (gušak)

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “գուշակ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “գուշակ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Łazarean, Ṙ. S. (2000), “գուշակ”, in Tʿosunean G. B., editor, Grabari baṙaran [Dictionary of Old Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: University Press
• J̌axǰaxean, Manuēl (1837), “գուշակ”, in Baṙgirkʿ i barbaṙ hay ew italakan [Armenian–Italian Dictionary], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “գուշակ”, 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 596–597