թառմա

Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Armenian թարմայ (tʻarmay), from Old Anatolian Turkish, ultimately of the same Mongolic origin as Persian طارم (târam); see it for more. Among the cognates compare especially dialectal Turkish tarma (large shelf in village houses and stables for setting down loads or for lying down; balcony; river dock).

Pronunciation

Noun

թառմա • (tʻaṙma) (dialectal)

  1. upper room in a house or a stable, made of wood
    Hypernym: վերնատուն (vernatun)
  2. upper room in a church for women
  3. trellis for vine
    Synonym: սարբինա (sarbina)

Declension

References

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “թառմայ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 351a, unaware of the origin
  • Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § E50, page 175, unaware of the ultimate origin
  • Ġazaryan, Ṙ. S., Avetisyan, H. M. (2009) “թարմայ”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 238b, unaware of the origin
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2002), “թառմա”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume II, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 82b
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