աւատ

From Iranian *ā-vā̆ta-; compare Sogdian [script needed] (ʾʾwt /⁠*āwat?⁠/, “hope, trust, faith”), [script needed] (ʾʾwth /⁠*āwat⁠/, “faith”), Khwarezmian [script needed] (ʾwd, “faith, religion”) and Central Kurdish ئاوات (awat, “desire, hope”). See հաւատ (hawat) for more.

աւատ • (awat)

1. faith; fidelity

   յաւատ գործել ― yawat gorcel ― to make, to work faithfully

• → Armenian: ավատ (avat)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “աւատ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “աւատ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “հաւատ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Perixanjan, A. G. (1993) Материалы к этимологическому словарю древнеармянского языка. Часть I [Materials for the Etymological Dictionary of the Old Armenian Language. Part 1]‎ (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 56