շանթ

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) lightning
 * 2) lightning strike

Etymology
. An overview of opinions follows.

According to Petersson, Pokorny and J̌ahukyan, inherited from, from the root , with such cognates as 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, etc. This is rejected by Ačaṙyan and Olsen, who consider the origin of / to be.

Alternatively, according to Tērvišean and Bugge, inherited from and cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. This is considered uncertain by Hübschmann and rejected by Ačaṙyan, who takes to be the reflex of this Indo-European root. Martirosyan remarks, that the connection between and / should not be ruled out.

The word has also been compared to the 🇨🇬 theonym and the 🇨🇬 theonym. Martirosyan notes that the Luwian theonym may be related to 🇨🇬 and that Armenian may theoretically go back to 🇨🇬.

After a lengthy discussion Martirosyan concludes "Arm[enian] šantʿ, basically meaning ‘lightning-stroke, thunderbolt’ or ‘burning (by lightning-stroke)’ and referring also to devils, snakes and the like (originally, perhaps, to the mythological Thunder Dragon), may be compared with Luwian Šanta, the “brilliant” one, a god of war (armed with a bow) which can cause pestilence and in the Hellenistic period is equated with Herakles. It seems more likely that the theonym derives from the appellative. If the existence of Armenian loans in Anatolian languages proves acceptable, the Luwian theonym may be treated as borrowed from Arm[enian] šantʿ ‘lightning-stroke; heavenly fire’. This would imply that Arm[enian] šantʿ was deified by the Armenians in the 2nd and 1st millennia BC. In the period of the Iranian influx, the Armenian god has been replaced by Vahagn which subsequently, exactly like Luwian Šanta, was identified with Herakles. The appellative šantʿ itself may be of P[roto-]I[ndo-]E[uropean] origin, although the etymological details are not entirely clear."

Noun

 * 1) lightning, thunderbolt; (fiery) bolt
 * 2) heavenly fire
 * 3) spark, flash
 * 4) red-hot iron
 * 5) ingot; a kind of measure of weight
 * 6)  red-hot
 * 1) ingot; a kind of measure of weight
 * 2)  red-hot
 * 1)  red-hot

Usage notes
In Job, translates.