vardapet:

Borrowing from Armenian ???????? ?(vardapet), from Old Armenian ???????? ?(vardapet, “teacher; vardapet”), from a South-Western Iranian word of the form *vard(a)-pet ?(literally “master of students; master of work”), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *warz- ?(“to do; to work; to till the land”) (from Proto-Indo-European *wer?- ?(“to make”), whence Old Persian vard- ?(“to work”) in the given name ???????????????? ?(Artavardiya-)) + Proto-Iranian *pati- (from Proto-Indo-European *pótis ?(“master; ruler”), whence Old Armenian ??? ?(pet, “chief, commander”), Parthian *pet).