տղաման

Armenian

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Alternative forms

  • տըղա̈մա̊ն (təġämån) dialectological notation

Etymology

From տղա (tġa) + աման (aman), literally "boy receptacle". Typologically compare Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (pwsdʾn' /⁠pusyān⁠/), Persian زهدان (zehdân, uterus), Northern Kurdish p’izdan (placenta).[1]

Noun

տղաման • (tġaman)[2]

  1. (dialectal, Moks) womb, uterus
    Synonym: արգանդ (argand)

References

  1. Asatrian, G., Livshits, V. (1994) “Origine du système consonantique de la langue kurde”, in Acta Kurdica, volume 1, page 82 of 81–108
  2. Orbeli, I. A. (2002) “տըղա̈մա̊ն”, in Словарь наречия Мокса [Dictionary of Moks Dialect] (Избранные труды в двух томах; II.1) (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, →ISBN, page 335
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