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Armenian
Etymology
From Old Armenian բահ (bah). Doublet of պել (pel).
Pronunciation
Noun
բահ • (bah)
- spade, shovel
- Synonym: (colloquial, proscribed) լապատկա (lapatka)
Declension
Derived terms
Old Armenian
Etymology
Simplified from earlier *բարհ (*barh) (like in մահ (mah), զոհ (zoh), պահ (pah), կահ (kah), ահ (ah)), an Iranian borrowing,[1][2][3][4] ultimately from Proto-Iranian *bádHr̥.
The Caucasian descendants may have been borrowed from Iranian without Armenian mediation.
Noun
բահ • (bah)
- spade, shovel; hoe
5th century,
Agatʻangełos,
Patmutʻiwn Hayocʻ :
- Արդ՝ առեալ թագաւորին փայտատ եւ բահ՝ հատանէր զդիրս հանգստոցաց սրբոցն իւրաքանչիւր ըստ չափու արկեղացն։
- Ard, aṙeal tʻagaworin pʻaytat ew bah, hatanēr zdirs hangstocʻacʻ srbocʻn iwrakʻančʻiwr əst čʻapʻu arkełacʻn.
Declension
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singular
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plural
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բահ (bah)
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բահք (bahkʻ)
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| genitive
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բահի (bahi)
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բահից (bahicʻ)
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| dative
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բահի (bahi)
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բահից (bahicʻ)
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| accusative
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բահ (bah)
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բահս (bahs)
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| ablative
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բահէ (bahē)
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բահից (bahicʻ)
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| instrumental
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բահիւ (bahiw)
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բահիւք (bahiwkʻ)
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| locative
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բահի (bahi)
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բահս (bahs)
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| post-classical
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Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Gershevitch, Ilya (1962) “Outdoor terms in Iranian”, in W. B. Henning, E. Yarshater, editors, A locust’s leg: Studies in honour of S. H. Taqizadeh, London: Percy Lund, Humphries & Co. Ltd, pages 78–79
- ^ Bailey, H. W. (1970) “A Range of Iranica”, in Mary Boyce, Ilya Gershevitch, editors, W.B. Henning memorial volume, London: Lund Humphries, page 31
- ^ Bailey, H. W. (1975) “Excursus Iranocaucasicus”, in Monumentum H. S. Nyberg I (Acta Iranica; 4), Leiden: Brill, page 32 of 31–35
- ^ Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 240b
Further reading
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “բահ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, pages 392–393
- Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1940) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun [History of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 40–41
- Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836) “բահ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 425b
- J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “բահ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 113b
- J̌axǰaxean, Manuēl (1837) “բահ”, in Baṙgirkʻ i barbaṙ hay ew italakan [Armenian–Italian Dictionary], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 280c
- Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*bV̆χ_V”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary, Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
- Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “բահ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 88b