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Etymology edit

From Northern Kurdish qudûm, qedûm, ultimately from Arabic قَدَم (qadam). Doublet of խատէմ (xatēm).

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ղուդում (ġudum) (dialectal)

  1. strength
    Synonyms: ուժ (), զորություն (zorutʻyun)
    ղուդումս կոտրեր աġudums kotrer aI am weak/I’ve lost all my strength (literally, “my ġudum is broken”)

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Further reading edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “խատէմ”, in Tʻurkʻerēni azdecʻutʻiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʻurkʻerēnē pʻoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žoġovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʻeamb Vani, Ġarabaġi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 172
  • Bediryan, Petros (2011) “ղուդում”, in Hayeren darjvackʻneri əndarjak bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Comprehensive explanatory dictionary of Armenian idioms] (in Armenian), Yerevan: University Press, page 863a
  • Nawasardeancʻ, Tigran (1903) “ղուդում”, in Baṙgirkʻ Araratean barbaṙi [Dictionary of Ararat Dialect] (in Armenian), Tiflis: Movsēs Vardaneancʻ Press, page 72b
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2004), “ղուդում”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume III, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 358b