նուիրակ

The basic meaning is “announcer”, from Middle Iranian *nivēδāk, an agent noun from *ni-waid-, from *ni- (“down”) + *waid- (“to know”); see the latter for more. For the suffix see -ակ (-ak).

նուիրակ • (nuirak)

1. the title of various officials, whose duties include announcing, declaring or notifying, namely
   1. an official attending the king or a lord, who clears his away and announces his arrival
   2. usher at a royal court
   3. envoy, delegate, messenger
   4. (ecclesiastical) legate of the catholicos; nuncio

• նուիրակապետ (nuirakapet), նուիրապետ (nuirapet)
• նուիրապետական (nuirapetakan)

• նուէր (nuēr)

• Armenian: նվիրակ (nvirak)

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “նուիրակ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1837), “նուիրակ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 451ab
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), “նուիրակ”, 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 470–471
• Asatrjan, G. S. (2013), “Parfjanskoje gōsān [Parthian gōsān]”, in Toxtasʹjev S. R., Lurʹje P. B., editors, Commentationes Iranicae. Sbornik statej k 90-letiju Vladimira Aronoviča Livšica‎ (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Nestor-Istorija, →ISBN, page 103

նուէր (nuēr) +‎ -ակ (-ak)

նուիրակ • (nuirak)

1. libation bowl

• նուիրանոց (nuiranocʿ)

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “նուիրակ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1837), “նուիրակ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 451b
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), “նուէր”, 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, page 469b