երաստան

Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian երաստան (erastan).

Pronunciation

Noun

երաստան • (erastan) (literary)

  1. buttocks, ass

Declension

Old Armenian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *preHḱt-, *proHḱt-. Cognate with Ancient Greek πρωκτός (prōktós). Influenced by երանք (erankʻ). Perhaps related to երաստոյ (erastoy).

Noun

երաստան • (erastan)

  1. (usually in the plural) buttocks
    հարկանել զերաստանսharkanel zerastansto flog
    հարուած, գան երաստանացharuac, gan erastanacʻflogging
    հարկանիլ յերաստանսharkanil yerastansto be subject to, or afflicted with hemorrhoids

Declension

Descendants

  • Armenian: երաստան (erastan) (learned)

References

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “երաստան”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “երաստան”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “երաստան”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 258
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