գզաթ

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian գզաթ (gzatʻ).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /ɡəˈzɑtʰ/, [ɡəzɑ́tʰ]
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /kəˈzɑt/, [kʰəzɑ́tʰ]

գզաթ • (gzatʻ) (rare, archaic)

1. fleece, wool

• ասր (asr)
• բուրդ (burd)

• Aġayan, Ēduard (1976) “գզաթ”, in Ardi hayereni bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 235c
• Barseġyan, Hovhannes (1973) “գզաթ”, in Hayeren uġġagrakan-uġġaxosakan, terminabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Orthographic–Orthoepic Terminological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Luys, page 222a
• “գզաթ”, in Žamanakakicʻ hayocʻ lezvi bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, 1969–1980, page 396b
• Čērēčean, Gnēl; Tōnikean, Pʻaramaz (1992) “գզաթ”, in Hayocʻ lezui nor baṙaran [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, volume I, Beirut: G. Doniguian & Fils, page 388b

A borrowing from Classical Syriac ܓܙܬܐ (gezzəθā, “fleece, wool”). See also կիզն (kizn).

գզաթ • (gzatʻ)

1. fleece, wool
   • 5th century, Bible, Book of Judges 6.37:

     Ահա դնեմ գզաթ մի ասուի ի կալ․ եթէ լինիցի անձրեւ ի վերայ գզաթուն միայն եւ ի վերայ ամենայն երկրի ցամաքութիւն, գիտացից եթէ փրկեսցես ձեռամբ իմով զԻսրայէլ՝ որպէս եւ խօսեցար։

     Aha dnem gzatʻ mi asui i kal; etʻē linicʻi anjrew i veray gzatʻun miayn ew i veray amenayn erkri cʻamakʻutʻiwn, gitacʻicʻ etʻē pʻrkescʻes jeṙamb imov zIsrayēl, orpēs ew xōsecʻar.

     • Translation by Brenton Septuagint Translation

       Behold, I put the fleece of wool in the threshing-floor: if there be dew on the fleece only, and drought on all the ground, I shall know that thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as thou hast said.

• → Armenian: գզաթ (gzatʻ) (learned)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “գզաթ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 547a
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “գզաթ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 158b
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836) “գզաթ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 549c
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “գզաթ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 118b
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 302
• Malxaseancʻ, Stepʻan (1944) “գզաթ”, in Hayerēn bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: State Publishing House, page 432a
• Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 931
• Olsen, Birgit Anette (26 July 2017) “Armenian Textile Terminology”, in Gaspa, Salvatore, Michel, Cécile, Nosch, Marie-Louise, editors, Textile Terminologies from the Orient to the Mediterranean and Europe, 1000 BC to 1000 AD‎^[1], Lincoln, Nebraska: Zea Books, →DOI, →ISBN, page 190