տիեզերք

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian տիեզերք (tiezerkʻ).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /tieˈzeɾkʰ/, [ti(j)ezéɾkʰ]
  • (Eastern Armenian, colloquial) IPA^(key): /tjeˈzeɾkʰ/, [tjezéɾkʰ]
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /dieˈzeɾk/, [di(j)ezéɾkʰ]
  • (Western Armenian, colloquial) IPA^(key): /djeˈzeɾk/, [djezéɾkʰ]

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• Hyphenation: տի‧ե‧զերք

տիեզերք • (tiezerkʻ)

1. cosmos, universe, world
2. space (area beyond atmosphere of planets)

From *տի- (*ti-, “of the habitation”) +‎ եզերք (ezerkʻ, “borders”). The first component is also found in տի-կին (ti-kin) and տէր (tēr) and is inherited from Proto-Indo-European *déms, the genitive of *dṓm (“house”).^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Alternatively, from տի- (ti-, “un-”, a prevocalic variant of տ- (t-)) +‎ եզերք (ezerkʻ), literally “the unbounded”.^{[6][7][8][9][10]}

տիեզերք • (tiezerkʻ) pl

1. the universe, the whole world, the Earth, macrocosm

   ընդ տիեզերս, ընդ ամենայն/բնաւ տիեզերս, ընդ ոլորտս տիեզերաց ― ənd tiezers, ənd amenayn/bnaw tiezers, ənd olorts tiezeracʻ ― throughout the world, everywhere

   առնել տիեզերս անապատ ― aṙnel tiezers anapat ― to reduce the Earth to a waste

• → Armenian: տիեզերք (tiezerkʻ) (learned)