բարակ

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /bɑˈɾɑk/, [bɑɾɑ́k]
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /pɑˈɾɑɡ/, [pʰɑɾɑ́ɡ]

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Inherited from Old Armenian բարակ (barak).

բարակ • (barak) (superlative ամենաբարակ)

1. thin

   բարակ թել ― barak tʻel ― thin needle

2. narrow

   բարակ ճանապարհ ― barak čanaparh ― narrow road

3. fine, delicate

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բարակ”, 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 418a

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian բարակ (barak).

բարակ • (barak)

1. a kind of hunting dog

• “բարակ”, in Žamanakakicʻ hayocʻ lezvi bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, 1969–1980

From Middle Iranian *bārak, a by-form of Middle Persian bʾlyk (bārīg/k, “thin, fine subtle”). Compare Persian باریک (bârik, “thin, slender, minute”), Pashto بارَگ (bāraġ, “thin, delicate, fine”).

For the sense development in բարակ ցաւ (barak cʻaw, “phthisis”) compare Turkish ince ağrı (“tuberculosis”, literally “thin pain”).

բարակ • (barak)

2. thin, slender, delicate, subtile

   բարակ ցաւ, ջերմ ― barak cʻaw, ǰerm ― phthisis

• Armenian: բարակ (barak)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “բարակ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “բարակ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բարակ”, 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 418a

Ałayan derives from Middle Persian bʾlk' (bārak, “*fast-moving; steed”). Accepted by J̌ahukyan.

For the sense development “dog” → “fornicator” compare շուն (šun, “dog; adulterer”).

• փարագ (pʻarag), փարաք (pʻarakʻ)
• պառաք (paṙakʻ), պարակ (parak), պարաք (parakʻ)

բարակ • (barak)

2. hunting dog
   • 5th century, Ełišē, Vasn Vardanay ew Hayocʻ paterazmin [History of Vardan and the Armenian War] 8:

     Սպառեցան բարակք որսականք եւ խցեալ կուրացան արշաւանք որսորդաց […]

     Spaṙecʻan barakkʻ orsakankʻ ew xcʻeal kuracʻan aršawankʻ orsordacʻ […]

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3. (figuratively) fornicator; lascivious, wanton, dissolute

• փարաքեան (pʻarakʻean), փարաքումն (pʻarakʻumn)

• → Armenian: բարակ (barak) (learned)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “բարակ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “բարակ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բարակ”, 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 418b
• Aġayan, Ēduard (1974) Baṙakʻnnakan ew stugabanakan hetazotutʻyunner [Lexicological and Etymological Studies]‎^[1] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 36–41
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “բարակ²”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 120a

բարակ • (barak)

1. alternative form of բորակ (borak)