Talk:արգատ

, this has a shape and feel of an Arabic word, perhaps metathesized from an or the like. Is there anything suitable in Arabic? I find 🇨🇬 and the root. --Vahag (talk) 13:45, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, that makes much sense. For example means parings, and one could seek a form  as a plural of a, but the problem with that is that  these forms do not exists, and the verb  or  does not mean “to cut” in that sense, in application to agriculture, but it really means “to nibble, to gnaw”, and it is applied to what animals do, for instance a bird. Instead one uses  or , nota bene, also more pertinent is , and  or  and  are used for this purpose, also , and there is a , and . ,  means “to chop, to cut into small pieces”, like here with pics about palm husbandry: “يقرط الجريد المتبقي إلى نصف طوله تقريباً ويربط ويتم ذلك قبل القلع بأسبوع تقريباً.”, and the meaning we seek does not exist in this form in this root either but  is the plural of . Fay Freak (talk) 17:06, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
 * , thanks for looking. Since *ʾaqrāḍ is not attested and the other forms cannot explain the Armenian, we cannot consider this solved. --Vahag (talk) 19:02, 5 September 2019 (UTC)