Two Armenian Personal Names With Šah ‘King’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22259490 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hrach Martirosyan (0000-0002-5554-0712, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | 158-166 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | BULLETIN OF THE INSTITUTE OF ORIENTAL STUDIES (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2738-2702 • E-ISSN: 2738-2710 |
| Publisher | National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.52837/27382702-2021-34.1-158 |
| OpenAlex | W3200055116 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
There are a great number of Armenian compound personal names with the element šah ‘king’ of Iranian origin (Middle Persian and New Persian šāh ‘king’). It occurs: (1) in both masculine and feminine names; (2) with both native Armenian and foreign components; (3) either as the first or the second component; (4) often in doublet forms with a reversed order of the components. For instance: masculine Šah-amir and Amir-šah, Šah-paron and Paron-šah, Vahram-šah; feminine: Šah-xat‘un and Xat‘un-šah, Šah-tikin. Also note masc. Šah-aziz vs. fem. Aziz-šah, masc. Sult‘an-šah vs. fem. Šah-sult‘an, masc. Melik‘-šah vs. fem. Šah-melē/ik‘ (the latter is sometimes masculine, cf. Middle Persian > Syriac Šāh-malīk, also masculine ). This paper aims to interpret two hapax legomena in which the component šah became synchronically unanalyzable due to phonological changes. In one of them, šah is the second member of the name (gen. Artamšin
Armenian · Linguistics · Persian · Political science · Theology · Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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