մաղձ

From Old Armenian մաղձ (małj).

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [mɑʁd͡z]
• (Western Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [mɑχt͡sʰ]

մաղձ • (maġj)

1. bile, gall
2. (figuratively) gall, spleen, rancour, wrath

• լեղի (leġi)

If the original meaning is “gall bladder”, then perhaps inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ml̥ǵʰ-, zero-grade of *melǵʰ- (“to swell”) and cognate with Sanskrit मल्ह (malhá, “having teats in the dewlap”) and Avestan 𐬨𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬰𐬁𐬥𐬀 (mər^əzāna, “belly”).

մաղձ • (małj)

1. bile, gall

   սեաւ մաղձ ― seaw małj ― black bile, atrabiliary humour

   անցք մաղձի ― ancʻkʻ małji ― gall-duct, -pipe

   աւազ մաղձի ― awaz małji ― gall-stone

2. (figuratively) gall, spleen, rancour, wrath

   ի դառնութեան մաղձի կալ ― i daṙnutʻean małji kal ― to be in a very bad humour

   թափել զմաղձն ― tʻapʻel zmałjn ― to discharge one's bile, to vent one's spleen

• Armenian: մաղձ (maġj)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “մաղձ”, 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 240ab
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1837) “մաղձ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, pages 199–200
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “մաղձ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 503
• Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 189
• Olsen, Birgit Anette (2017) “Part 9: Armenian”, in Kapović, Mate, editor, The Indo-European Languages (Routledge Language Family Series), 2nd edition, London, New York: Routledge, →ISBN, page 426
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “մաղձ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 449b
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 723