մահակ

• մհակ (mhak) — dialectal

From Old Armenian մահակ (mahak).

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• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /mɑˈhɑk/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /mɑˈhɑɡ/,

մահակ • (mahak)

1. club, cudgel, truncheon, baton

   Synonym: (colloquial) դուբինկա (dubinka)

   • 1699, Zakʻaria Sarkawag Kʻanakʻeṙcʻi, Patmagrutʻiwn II.2:^[1][2]

     Եւ Ամիրճանն կառկառեաց զմհակն ՚ի վերայ նորա՝ եւ հայհոյեաց զկին նորա՝ բոզ ասելով նմա։

     Ew Amirčann kaṙkaṙeacʻ zmhakn ’i veray nora, ew hayhoyeacʻ zkin nora, boz aselov nma.

     • Translation by George A. Bournoutian

       Amirjan threatened him with a cudgel, cursed his wife and called her a whore.

According to Asatryan, from Middle Iranian *mahāk, an agent noun from the Iranian root *manθH- (“to agitate, stir, churn”). For the suffix see -ակ (-ak). On the root see Cheung.

մահակ • (mahak)

1. club, cudgel

• Armenian: մահակ (mahak), մհակ (mhak) — dialectal

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “մահակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 234a
• Асатрян, Г. С. (2013) “Парфянское gōsān [Parthian gōsān]”, in С. Р. Тохтасьев, П. Б. Лурье, editors, Commentationes Iranicae. Сборник статей к 90-летию Владимира Ароновича Лившица‎ (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Nestor-Istoriya, →ISBN, page 103 of 102–105
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “մահակ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 264
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “մահակ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy