kʾkwm

Middle Persian

Etymology

The origin is uncertain. Related to Old Armenian կնգմենի (kngmeni, “ermine fur”).

Noun

kʾkwm • (kākom) (Book Pahlavi)

1. stoat

Derived terms

• [script needed] (kākom ī spēd, “ermine”, literally “white stoat”)

Descendants

• Persian: قاقم (qâqom)
  • Tajik: қоқум (qoqum)
• → Arabic: قَاقُم (qāqum), قَاقُوم (qāqūm)
• → Azerbaijani: qaqum
• → Georgian: ყარყუმი (q̇arq̇umi)
• Kurdish:

  → Northern Kurdish: ququme

  → Central Kurdish: قاقوم (qaqum)

• → Ottoman Turkish: قاقم (qāqum)
  • Turkish: kakum, kakım
  • → Armenian: քաքում (kʻakʻum), գագում (gagum)
  • → Romanian: cacom
• → Pashto: قاقم (ḳāḳúm)

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “kākom”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 48
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “կնգում”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 607ab