բահ

Armenian

Etymology

From Old Armenian բահ (bah). Doublet of պել (pel).

Pronunciation

Noun

բահ • (bah)

  1. spade, shovel
    Synonym: (colloquial, proscribed) լապատկա (lapatka)

Declension

Derived terms

  • բահակոթ (bahakotʻ)
  • բահակտրուկ (bahaktruk)
  • բահաձեւ (bahajew)
  • բահափոր (bahapʻor)
  • բահաքենջ (bahakʻenǰ)
  • բահել (bahel)
  • բահքերիկ (bahkʻerik)

Old Armenian

Etymology

Simplified from earlier *բարհ (*barh) (like in մահ (mah), զոհ (zoh), պահ (pah), կահ (kah), ահ (ah)), an Iranian borrowing,[1][2][3][4] ultimately from Proto-Iranian *bádHr̥.

The Caucasian descendants may have been borrowed from Iranian without Armenian mediation.

Noun

բահ • (bah)

  1. spade, shovel; hoe
    • 5th century, Agatʻangełos, Patmutʻiwn Hayocʻ [History of the Armenians] :
      Արդ՝ առեալ թագաւորին փայտատ եւ բահ՝ հատանէր զդիրս հանգստոցաց սրբոցն իւրաքանչիւր ըստ չափու արկեղացն։
      Ard, aṙeal tʻagaworin pʻaytat ew bah, hatanēr zdirs hangstocʻacʻ srbocʻn iwrakʻančʻiwr əst čʻapʻu arkełacʻn.

Declension

Derived terms

  • բահաւոր (bahawor)

Descendants

  • Armenian: բահ (bah)
  • ? Abkhaz: абаҳа (abaḥa)
  • ? Budukh: бар (bar)
  • ? Chechen: баьхьа (bäḥʳa), бахьа (baḥʳa), бахь (baḥʳ), бехье (beḥʳe), бехьа (beḥʳa)
  • ? Ingush: бахьа (baḥʳa)
  • ? Lezgi: пер (per)
  • ? Old Georgian: ბარი (bari)

References

  1. Gershevitch, Ilya (1962) “Outdoor terms in Iranian”, in W. B. Henning, E. Yarshater, editors, A locust’s leg: Studies in honour of S. H. Taqizadeh, London: Percy Lund, Humphries & Co. Ltd, pages 78–79
  2. Bailey, H. W. (1970) “A Range of Iranica”, in Mary Boyce, Ilya Gershevitch, editors, W.B. Henning memorial volume, London: Lund Humphries, page 31
  3. Bailey, H. W. (1975) “Excursus Iranocaucasicus”, in Monumentum H. S. Nyberg I (Acta Iranica; 4), Leiden: Brill, page 32 of 31–35
  4. Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 240b

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