մոլիմ

Probably of the same Proto-Indo-European origin as մեղ (meł).

մոլիմ • (molim)

1. (intransitive) to become mad, to lose one's senses; to be in a passion, enraged; to be extravagantly fond of, to fall violently in love with, to be passionately in love

   մոլել զհետ ― molel zhet ― to bend one's whole soul to, to apply oneself entirely to, to dote upon, to be distracted with

   մոլիս, Պա՛ւղէ ― molis, Páwłē ― Paul, thou art beside thyself

2. (intransitive) to divine, to prophesy (referring to the ecstatic fury of the sorcerer or the prophet)

• Armenian: մոլել (molel)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “մոլիմ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “մոլիմ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “մոլ”, 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 472