# վարդապետ
## Armenian
### Etymology

From Old Armenian վարդապետ (vardapet). Doublet of վարպետ (varpet).

### Pronunciation

* (Eastern Armenian) IPA: /vɑɾtʰɑˈpet/, [vɑɾtʰɑpét]
* (Western Armenian) IPA: /vɑɾtɑˈbed/, [vɑɾtʰɑbéd]
* Hyphenation: վար‧դա‧պետ

### Noun

վարդապետ • (vardapet)
* (ecclesiastical) vardapet
    Synonym: (dialectal, slang) պոպոզ (popoz)
* (archaic, literary) teacher

#### Descendants

* → English: Wortabet

## Old Armenian
### Etymology

A borrowing from a Southwestern Iranian word of the form *vard(a)-pet (literally “master of students or master of work”). The first part is ultimately from Proto-Iranian *warj- (note especially Old Persian *vard- (“to work”)) and is a doublet of վարժ (varž), վարձ (varj), and գործ (gorc). The second part is from *pátiš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pátiš (“master, lord”), whence Old Armenian պետ (pet). Akin to Middle Persian 𐭥𐭥𐭣𐭯𐭲 (wrdpt /⁠wardbed⁠/, “a title”).

### Noun

վարդապետ • (vardapet)
* teacher, lecturer, professor, doctor
    վարդապետ օրինաց ― vardapet ōrinacʻ ― doctor of laws
    վարդապետ աստուածաբանութեան ― vardapet astuacabanutʻean ― doctor in divinity, D. D.
    վարդապետ բժշկութեան ― vardapet bžškutʻean ― doctor in medicine, M.D.
    զվարդապետի թեկն ածել ― zvardapeti tʻekn acel ― to pass oneself off as a doctor
* supervising foreman
* (figuratively) instigator, exciter
* (post-Classical, ecclesiastical) vardapet

#### Derived terms

* աշխարհավարդապետութիւն (ašxarhavardapetutʻiwn)
* ինքնավարդապետ (inkʻnavardapet)
* վարդապետախօս (vardapetaxōs)
* վարդապետական (vardapetakan)
* վարդապետանոց (vardapetanocʻ)
* վարդապետարան (vardapetaran)
* վարդապետեմ (vardapetem)
* վարդապետիմ (vardapetim)
* վարդապետոց (vardapetocʻ)
* վարդապետութիւն (vardapetutʻiwn)
* վարդապետուհի (vardapetuhi)
* վարդապետօրէն (vardapetōrēn)

#### Descendants

* Middle Armenian: վարդապետ (vardapet), վարդպետ (vardpet), վարպետ (varpet)
** Armenian: վարդապետ (vardapet), վարպետ (varpet)
*** → Georgian: ვართაპეტი (vartaṗeṭi)
* → Aghwan: 𐕛𐔰𐕙𐔳𐔰𐕗𐔴𐕜 (vardaṗeṭ), 𐕛𐔰𐕙𐕜𐔰𐕗𐔴𐕜 (varṭaṗeṭ)
* → Medieval Latin: verthabite

### References

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