թագւոր

Middle Armenian

Alternative forms

թագվոր (tʻagvor), թագուոր (tʻaguor)

Etymology

From Old Armenian թագաւոր (tʻagawor).

Noun

թագւոր • (tʻagwor), genitive singular թագւորի (tʻagwori)

king
bridegroom (because he carries a crown during the wedding)

Derived terms

թագուորանալ (tʻaguoranal)
թագվորորդի (tʻagvorordi)
թագւորական (tʻagworakan)
թագւորացեղ (tʻagworacʻeġ)

Descendants

Armenian: թագվոր (tʻagvor)
→ Arabic: تكفور (takfūr)
- → Old Catalan: tafur
  - Catalan: tafur
- → Old Galician-Portuguese: tafur, taful
  - Galician: tafur
  - Portuguese: taful
- → Old Spanish: tafur
  - Spanish: tahúr
- → Ottoman Turkish: تكفور (tekfur), թէքֆուր (tekfur) — Armeno-Turkish
  - Turkish: tekfur
- → Persian: تکفور (takfur)
→ Persian: تکور (takvor)

References

Ġazaryan, Ṙuben, Avetisyan, Henrik (2009) “թագւոր”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press