մահակ

Armenian

Alternative forms

  • մհակ (mhak) dialectal

Etymology

From Old Armenian մահակ (mahak).

Pronunciation

Noun

մահակ • (mahak)

  1. club, cudgel, truncheon, baton
    Synonym: (colloquial) դուբինկա (dubinka)
    • 1699, Zakʻaria Sarkawag Kʻanakʻeṙcʻi, Patmagrutʻiwn [Chronicle] II.2:[1][2]
      Եւ Ամիրճանն կառկառեաց զմհակն ՚ի վերայ նորա՝ եւ հայհոյեաց զկին նորա՝ բոզ ասելով նմա։
      Ew Amirčann kaṙkaṙeacʻ zmhakn ’i veray nora, ew hayhoyeacʻ zkin nora, boz aselov nma.
      • Translation by George A. Bournoutian
        Amirjan threatened him with a cudgel, cursed his wife and called her a whore.

Declension

References

  1. Zakʻaria Kʻanakʻeṙcʻi (1870) Zakʻareay Sarkawagi patmagrutʻiwn [Chronicle], volume II, Vagharshapat: Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, page 2
  2. Bournoutian, George A. (2004) The Chronicle of Deacon Zak‘aria of K‘anak‘eṛ (Armenian Studies Series; 6), Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers, page 108

Old Armenian

Etymology

According to Asatryan, from Middle Iranian *mahāk, an agent noun from the Iranian root *manθH- (to agitate, stir, churn). For the suffix see -ակ (-ak). On the root see Cheung.

Noun

մահակ • (mahak)

  1. club, cudgel

Declension

Descendants

  • Armenian: մահակ (mahak), մհակ (mhak)

References

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “մահակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 234a
  • Асатрян, Г. С. (2013) “Парфянское gōsān [Parthian gōsān]”, in С. Р. Тохтасьев, П. Б. Лурье, editors, Commentationes Iranicae. Сборник статей к 90-летию Владимира Ароновича Лившица (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Nestor-Istoriya, →ISBN, page 103 of 102–105
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “մահակ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 264
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “մահակ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
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