բրդեմ

The root is *բուրդ- (*burd-, “to cut”) (compare ջարդուբուրդ (ǰarduburd) and բուրդ (burd, “wool”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōrdʰ-, from *bʰerdʰ- (“to cut”); cognate with Sanskrit वर्धक (vardhaka, “shearing, cutting; carpenter”), Old High German barta (“axe”), Ancient Greek πέρθω (pérthō, “to destroy, to devastate”), Proto-Germanic *burdą, Proto-Slavic *bьrdo.^[1]

բրդեմ • (brdem)

1. (transitive) to cut to pieces, to crumble (bread)
2. (mediopassive, intransitive) to snow in large flakes
3. (mediopassive, intransitive) idiomatic and figurative meanings

   բրդել ի բարկութիւն, բրդել ի սրտմտութիւն բարկութեան ― brdel i barkutʻiwn, brdel i srtmtutʻiwn barkutʻean ― to be on a passion, to be angry, mad

• բրդոն (brdon)

• բուրդ (burd)

• Armenian: բրդել (brdel), փրթել (pʻrtʻel)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “բրդեմ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “բրդեմ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “բուրդ(-)”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “բուրդ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Djahukian, Gevorg (2003) “Notes on Some Lexical Correspondences between Armenian and the Kartvelian Languages”, in Iran and the Caucasus‎, volume 7, number 1/2, pages 191–194