-ապատ

From Old Armenian -ապատ (-apat).

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [-ɑpɑ́t]
• (Western Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [-ɑbɑ́d]

-ապատ • (-apat)

1. forming city names after the name of its founder

   Synonym: -կերտ (-kert)

• ապատ (apat)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “ապատ”, 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 229b

Borrowed from Iranian; compare Persian آباد (-âbâd).

-ապատ • (-apat)

1. forming city names after the name of its founder

   Synonym: -կերտ (-kert)

   ‎Վաղարշ (Vałarš, “Vologases”) + ‎-ապատ (-apat) → ‎Վաղարշապատ (Vałaršapat, “Vagharshapat”)

• ապատ (apat)

• Armenian: -ապատ (-apat)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “ապատ”, 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 229b
• Schmitt, Rüdiger (1987) “Armenia and Iran IV. Iranian influences in Armenian 1. General”, in Ehsan Yarshater, editor, Encyclopædia Iranica‎, volume 2, London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, page 458a of 445–459