խազ

From Old Armenian խազ (xaz); see it for more.

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): [χɑz]

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խազ • (xaz)

1. line; notch
2. note (in ancient Armenian musical notation system)
3. parting line of hair

According to Ačaṙyan, perhaps a “Caucasian” borrowing (Kartvelian? Northeast Caucasian?); compare Georgian ხაზი (xazi, “line, row”), Laz ხაზ (xaz, “to draw a line”), Udi խազ (xaz, “line”).

Alternatively, according to Martirosyan, perhaps an Iranian borrowing, ultimately going back to Proto-Iranian *xad-s-, sigmatic aorist of *xad- (“to beat, inflict a wound”); compare Manichaean Parthian xʾz- (*xāz-, “to devour”), Sanskrit खिदति (khinati, “to tear; to press down”).

խազ • (xaz)

1. line, writing mark, line in hand, scratch; notch of an arrow
2. (music) khaz, note

   նուագել զխազս ― nuagel zxazs ― to solfa

   նուագումն խազից ― nuagumn xazicʿ ― solfeggio

   դրոշմել խազիւք զեղանակ ինչ ― drošmel xaziwkʿ zełanak inčʿ ― to note an air, to write it down

• Armenian: խազ (xaz)

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “խազ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “խազ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “խազ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 324