բողոք

From Old Armenian բողոք (bołokʻ); see it for more.

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /boˈʁokʰ/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /poˈʁok/,

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• Hyphenation: բո‧ղոք

բողոք • (boġokʻ)

1. complaint
2. protest

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to sound, speak”). Cognate with Old Norse belja (“to roar”), Old High German bellan (“to bark, resound”). For the suffix -ոք (-okʻ) compare կեղ-եք-եմ (keł-ekʻ-em), ող-ոք-եմ (oł-okʻ-em).

բողոք • (bołokʻ)

1. loud complaint, cry

   բողոք բառնալ, հարկանել, ունել, կարդալ, արկանել ― bołokʻ baṙnal, harkanel, unel, kardal, arkanel ― to cry, complain loudly

2. (rare) herald

• Armenian: բողոք (boġokʻ)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “բողոք”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “բողոք”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “բողոք”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 182