մշակ

Armenian

Etymology

From Old Armenian մշակ (mšak).

Pronunciation

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Noun

մշակ • (mšak)

  1. tiller, farmer, cultivator
  2. porter, bearer
  3. worker, laborer, hand

Declension

Synonyms

  • ռանչպար (ṙančʿpar)

Old Armenian

Etymology

An Iranian borrowing: compare Khotanese mäṣṣa- (“field”).[1][2][3] Related to Old Georgian მუშაკი (mušaḳi), Georgian მუშა (muša, “laborer”), also from Iranian.[1] Compare also Bats მუშაჸო̆ (mušaʾŏ, “laborer”), Laz მუშა (muša, “porter”). Not knowing about the Khotanese word, Ačaṙean derived Armenian մշակ (mšak) from the Caucasian cognates.[4]

Noun

մշակ • (mšak)

  1. agricultural laborer
    • 5th century, Bible, 1 Timothy 5.18
      Արժանի է մշակն վարձու իւրոյ։
      Aržani ē mšakn varju iwroy.
      The laborer deserves his wages.

Declension

Synonyms

  • երկրագործ (erkragorc), հողագործ (hołagorc), այգեգործ (aygegorc)

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  1. 1 2 Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, pages 332–333
  2. ↑ 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 242–243
  3. ↑ J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010), “մշակ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 531ab
  4. ↑ Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), “մշակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 335ab

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