ձաղկ

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian ձաղկ (jałk).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /d͡zɑχk/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /t͡sɑχɡ/,

ձաղկ • (jaġk)

1. (rare) rod, stick, staff
2. (rare) beating

Inherited from a zero-grade formation of Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰolgʰ-, but Armenian points to *ǵʰolg-. Cognate with Lithuanian žalgà (“long, thin stake”), Proto-Germanic *galgô. See also ձաղտել (jaġtel).

ձաղկ • (jałk)

1. rod, stick, staff, whip, switch (often for beating)
2. twig, branch
3. beating, whipping
4. (as an adjective) straight, upstanding, tense

   ձաղկ հերք, մազ ― jałk herkʻ, maz ― bristled up hair, hair set on end

• → Armenian: ձաղկ (jaġk)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ձաղկ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “ձաղկ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “ձաղկ”, 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 429