զառանցեմ

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Old Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From զ- (z-) +‎ առ (aṙ) +‎ անց- (ancʻ-, to pass, surpass, be destroyed), thus “past [the age]”. Alternatively, the first part *զառ (*zaṙ) may mean "old"; see զառամ (zaṙam).

Verb[edit]

զառանցեմ (zaṙancʻem)

  1. to be delirious (of drunkenness or especially of senility)

Conjugation[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Armenian: զառանցել (zaṙancʻel)

References[edit]

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “զառանցեմ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 272–273