մեկնեմ

Old Armenian

Etymology

From մեկին (mekin).

Verb

մեկնեմ • (meknem)

1. (transitive) to divide, to separate, to isolate; to detach, to loose, to remove

   մեկնել ի ստենէ ― meknel i stenē ― to wean

   թուղթ մեկնելոյ ― tʻułtʻ mekneloy ― bill of divorce

2. (transitive) to stretch, to hold out, to stretch forth
3. (transitive) to explain, to interpret, to comment upon

   թիւր մեկնել ― tʻiwr meknel ― to interpret malignantly, to misconstrue, to put an ill construction on; to preach a perverse doctrine

4. (mediopassive, intransitive) to separate, to disunite, to part, to get loose; to remove, to go away, to depart, to retire, to go out, to make off, to steal away

   մեկնել ի ցամաքէ ― meknel i cʻamakʻē ― to bear off from the shore, to take sea-room, to stand out to sea

   մեկնել ի կնոջէ ― meknel i knoǰē ― to give a bill of divorce

   մեկնել ի հիացումն ― meknel i hiacʻumn ― to go into ecstasies

5. (mediopassive, intransitive) to abstain, to forbear; to leave off, to desist, to cease
6. (mediopassive, intransitive) to stretch
7. (mediopassive, intransitive) to explain oneself

Conjugation

Descendants

• Armenian: մեկնել (meknel)

References

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “մեկնեմ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “մի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page մեկին