աջ

From Old Armenian աջ (aǰ).

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• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /ɑt͡ʃʰ/, [ɑt͡ʃʰ]
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /ɑt͡ʃ/, [ɑt͡ʃʰ]

աջ • (aǰ) (superlative ամենաաջ)

1. (of direction) right, not left

• ձախ (jax)

աջ • (aǰ)

1. right, the right side
2. the right hand

աջ • (aǰ)

1. to the right (of)

   ինձնից աջ ― injnicʻ aǰ ― to my right, on my right

From Proto-Indo-European *sHdʰ-yo- or *seh₂dʰ-yo- (“successful”); cognates include Sanskrit साध्य (sādhyá), साधु (sādhú, “straight, right”), Avestan 𐬵𐬁𐬛𐬭𐬋𐬫𐬁 (hādrōyā, “desire to achieve the goal”), perhaps also Ancient Greek ἰθύς (ithús).^[1][2][3]

աջ • (aǰ)

1. right
2. right hand
3. (post-Classical) the hand (left or right) of a saint or a holy man as a relic

աջ • (aǰ)

1. right

In compounds the word has also the meanings of “lucky, good” (common development in many languages) and “progress, going forward”. Compare յ-աջ-ող (y-aǰ-oł) for the first and առ-աջ (aṙ-aǰ) for the second.

• Armenian: աջ (aǰ)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “աջ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “աջ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate‎^[1], PhD dissertation, Leiden University, page 61