Սմպատ

Սմպատ

Middle Armenian

Etymology

From Old Armenian Սմբատ (Smbat).

Noun

Սմպատ • (Smpat)

1. A male given name
   • 1280, Inscription (Tombstone 3 in the Orbelian family cemetery in Ełegis, Vayocʿ Jor, Armenia) :[1][2]

     ԱՅՍ Է ՀԱՆԳԻՍՏ ՍՄՊԱՏԱ ։ Թ ։ ՉԻԹ

     AYS Ē HANGIST SMPATA . Tʿ . ČʿITʿ

     This is the tomb of Smpat, in the year 729 [AE = 1280 CE]

References

1. Barxudaryan, S. G. (1967) , K. G. Łafadaryan, editor, Divan hay vimagrutʿyan. Prak III, Vayocʿ Jor, Ełegnajori ew Azizbekovi šrǰanner [Corpus Inscriptionum Armenicarum. Volume III, Vayots Dzor: Districts of Yeghegnadzor and Azizbekov] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, § 327, page 113
2. Stone, Michael E. (2019) , “The Orbelian family cemetery in Ełegis, Vayoc‘ Jor, Armenia”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15), with notes by Aram Topchyan, printed also in REArm 33 (2011), Leuven: Peeters, pages 351–352