ճաղատ

Armenian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian ճաղատ (čałat).

Pronunciation

  • (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA(key): [t͡ʃɑˈʁɑt]
  • (file)

Adjective

ճաղատ (čałat) (superlative ամենաճաղատ)

  1. bald-headed, bald
    Synonyms: քաչալ (kʿačʿal), հերաթափ (heratʿapʿ)

Declension

Derived terms

  • ճաղատանալ (čałatanal)
  • ճաղատացում (čałatacʿum)

Old Armenian

Etymology

The origin is uncertain.

Ačaṙean tentatively derives from supposed *ճաղ (*čał, hair) + -ատ (-at, -less), deriving the first from Northeast Caucasian: compare Lak чӏара (č̣ara), Lezgi чӏар (č̣ar), Khinalug чӏар (č̣ar, hair) etc.[1] Nikolayev / Starostin reconstruct Proto-Northeast Caucasian *ć̣ħwǝ̄rǝ (hair) for these.[2]

According to J̌ahukyan, perhaps an Iranian borrowing: compare Sanskrit खलति (khalatí, bald-headed).[3] Perhaps also related to ճեղ (čeł, bald-headed).[3]

According to Abaev, belongs to a group of phonosemantic regional words of the type ČGR with the meaning ‘mark, conspicuous sign, spot, color’ (usually in animals and humans).[4]

Adjective

ճաղատ (čałat)

  1. bald-headed, bald
    Synonyms: կունդ (kund), կնտակ (kntak)

Declension

Derived terms

  • ճաղատութիւն (čałatutʿiwn)

Descendants

References

  1. Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), ճաղատ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 178–179
  2. Nikolayev, S. L.; Starostin, S. A. (1994), *ć̣ħwǝ̄rǝ”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
  3. J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010), ճաղատ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 486
  4. Abajev, V. I. (1989) Istoriko-etimologičeskij slovarʹ osetinskovo jazyka [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume IV, Moscow, Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, page 318

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