փչեմ

The root is փուչ- (pʻučʻ-), from Proto-Indo-European *pʰu-. Cognates include Persian پوک (puk), پکیدن (pokidan, “to blow, to die”), Ancient Greek φῦσα (phûsa, “bellows”), Latin pustula, Russian пыхать (pyxatʹ). Related to փուք (pʻukʻ).

փչեմ • (pʻčʻem)  (aorist indicative փչեցի)

1. to blow, to breathe

   հողմն փչէ ― hołmn pʻčʻē ― the wind blows

   • 5th century, with changes and additions in later centuries, Baroyaxōs Earliest recension (TR).2.15–16:^[1]

     Երրորդ բարք առիւծուն․ յորժամ ծնանի մատակ առեւծն զկորիւնն, մեռեալ ծնանի․ եւ նստեալ պահէ զորդի իւր, մինչեւ գայ հայրն յաւուր երրորդի եւ փչէ ի ճակատն նորա եւ յարուցանէ զնա։

     Errord barkʻ aṙiwcun; yoržam cnani matak aṙewcn zkoriwnn, meṙeal cnani; ew nsteal pahē zordi iwr, minčʻew gay hayrn yawur errordi ew pʻčʻē i čakatn nora ew yarucʻanē zna.

     • Translation by Gohar Muradyan

       The third custom of the lion: when the lioness gives birth to the whelp, she brings it forth dead. And she sits and guards her child, until on the third day the father comes and blows into its forehead and awakens it.

2. to swell, to inflate
3. to expire; to die

   փչել զհոգին ― pʻčʻel zhogin ― to expire, to die

• Armenian: փչել (pʻčʻel)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “փչեմ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “փչեմ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “փուչ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press