մուն

From Old Armenian մուն (mun).

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

մուն • (mun)

1. (dialectal) small louse or the like
2. (dialectal) a kind of small fly
3. (dialectal) tick
4. itch, fleshworm

From Proto-Indo-European *musno-, a derivative of *mus- (“fly, midge”). Cognates include Ancient Greek μυῖα (muîa), Lithuanian musė̃, Russian муха (muxa), Latin musca. For the sense development ‘an insect, gnat, louse’ > ‘itch’ compare Ancient Greek ψώρα (psṓra, “itch; moth”).

մուն • (mun)

1. gnat, midge
2. itch
   • 5th century, Bible, Deuteronomy 28.27:^[1]

     Հարցէ զքեզ տէր կեղով եգիպտացոցն եւ թանչիւք եւ զայրացեալ քոսով, և մնով, զի մի կարասցես բժշկել։

     Harcʻē zkʻez tēr kełov egiptacʻocʻn ew tʻančʻiwkʻ ew zayracʻeal kʻosov, ew mnov, zi mi karascʻes bžškel.

     • Translation by New English Translation of the Septuagint

       May the Lord strike you with an Egyptian festering sore in the seats and with severe itch and scratching so that you cannot be healed.

• մնակ (mnak)

• Armenian: մուն (mun)
• Georgian: მუნი (muni)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “մուն”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “մուն”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “մուն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Matasović, Ranko (2009) A Grammatical Sketch of Classical Armenian‎, Zagreb, page 8
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “mun”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 485