շատ

Armenian

Etymology

From Old Armenian շատ (šat), from an Iranian source, from Proto-Iranian *čyáHtiš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *čyáHtiš, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyéh₁-ti-s ~ *kʷih₁-téy-s, from *kʷyeh₁- (to rest) + *-tis;[1] compare Persian شاد (šâd, glad, happy), French quiétude, and, for an analogous semantic development from the same root, English quite. Doublet of հանգչել (hangčʿel).

Pronunciation

Adjective

շատ (šat) (superlative ամենաշատ)

  1. a lot of, many, much

Declension

Synonyms

Adverb

շատ (šat)

  1. very

References

  1. Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 388-389
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