բաջառել

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Middle Armenian

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Etymology

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Of onomatopoeic origin; compare բաջաղիմ (baǰałim). Alternatively, from the hypothetical root *բա(ղ)ջ- (*ba(ł)ǰ-) and related to բարբաջ (barbaǰ).

Verb

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բաջառել (baǰaṙel)

  1. to tell myths, fables

Usage notes

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Found only in a late medieval glossary, glossed as առասպելել (aṙaspelel).

References

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  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “baǰaṙel”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 168