ողբ

From Old Armenian ողբ (ołb).

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

ողբ • (oġb)

1. lamentation, wail, bewailing

   Synonyms: շիվան (šivan), լացուկոծ (lacʻukoc), կոծ (koc)

• ողբալ (oġbal)

• Dum-Tragut, Jasmine (2009) Armenian: Modern Eastern Armenian (London Oriental and African Language Library; 14), Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 24
• Barseġyan, Hovhannes (1973) “ողբ”, in Hayeren uġġagrakan-uġġaxosakan, terminabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Orthographic–Orthoepic Terminological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Luys, page 740a

From Proto-Indo-European *olbʰ-, grown from the onomatopoeic root *ol-, *el-, whence possibly also աղաչեմ (ałačʻem), աղաւթք (aławtʻkʻ), աղատել (aġatel), աղատ (aġat), աղմուկ (ałmuk). Cognate with Lithuanian ulbauti (“to warble”) and Ancient Greek ὀλοφύρομαι (olophúromai, “to lament”). Further cognate with Lithuanian nu-aldė́ti (“to sound”), Old Norse jálmr (“noise”), Saterland Frisian ulken (“to cry, to mock”), Swedish alken (“to begin to growl”), Ancient Greek ὀλολύζω (ololúzō, “to cry out loudly, call, moan”), ἔλεγος (élegos).

ողբ • (ołb)

1. lamentation, complaint, groaning, wailing, moans, tears

   ողբք ― ołbkʻ ― elegy

   ողբս առնուլ, յօրինել, զողբս հարկանել ― ołbs aṙnul, yōrinel, zołbs harkanel ― to lament

• Armenian: ողբ (oġb)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ողբ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “ողբ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “ողբ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “⁴el-, ol-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 306