Armenian edit

Etymology edit

From Old Armenian բահ (bah). Doublet of պել (pel).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

բահ (bah)

  1. spade, shovel
    Synonym: (colloquial, proscribed) լապատկա (lapatka)

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Old Armenian edit

Etymology edit

Simplified from earlier *բարհ (*barh) (like in մահ (mah), զոհ (zoh), պահ (pah), կահ (kah), ահ (ah)), an Iranian borrowing,[1][2][3][4] ultimately from Proto-Iranian *bádHr̥.

The Caucasian descendants may have been borrowed from Iranian without Armenian mediation.

Noun edit

բահ (bah)

  1. spade, shovel; hoe
    • 5th century, Agatʿangełos, Patmutʿiwn Hayocʿ [History of the Armenians] :
      Արդ՝ առեալ թագաւորին փայտատ եւ բահ՝ հատանէր զդիրս հանգստոցաց սրբոցն իւրաքանչիւր ըստ չափու արկեղացն։
      Ard, aṙeal tʻagaworin pʻaytat ew bah, hatanēr zdirs hangstocʻacʻ srbocʻn iwrakʻančʻiwr əst čʻapʻu arkełacʻn.

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References edit

  1. ^ Gershevitch, Ilya (1962) “Outdoor terms in Iranian”, in W. B. Henning, E. Yarshater, editors, A locust’s leg: Studies in honour of S. H. Taqizadeh[1], London: Percy Lund, Humphries & Co. Ltd, pages 78–79
  2. ^ Bailey, H. W. (1970) “A Range of Iranica”, in Mary Boyce, Ilya Gershevitch, editors, W.B. Henning memorial volume[2], London: Lund Humphries, page 31
  3. ^ Bailey, H. W. (1975) “Excursus Iranocaucasicus”, in Monumentum H. S. Nyberg I (Acta Iranica; 4)‎[3], Leiden: Brill, page 32 of 31–35
  4. ^ Bailey, H. W. (1979) Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 240b

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