Armenian edit

Etymology edit

Ultimately from Arabic رَقْم (raqm), in some dialects via Ottoman Turkish رقم (rakam).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ռաղամ (ṙaġam) (dialectal)

  1. figure, cipher, digit
    Synonyms: թիվ (tʻiv), թվանշան (tʻvanšan)
    • ca. 1680–1684, Baṙ girg taliani [An Armenian–Italian Dictionary published in Venice] page 52:[1]
      ռաղամ․ ցիֆրայ
      ṙaġam; cʻifray
      ռաղամ (ṙaġam) = cifra
  2. arithmetic
    Synonym: թվաբանություն (tʻvabanutʻyun)

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References edit

  1. ^ Orengo, Alessandro (2019) “Il ԲԱՌ ԳԻՐԳ ՏԱԼԻԱՆԻ Un dizionario armeno-italiano del XVII secolo”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15), Leuven: Peeters, page 241

Further reading edit

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “ըռախամ”, 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