օձամարտ

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Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian օձամարտ (ōjamart).

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

օձամարտ (ōjamart) (rare)

  1. fighting against snakes

Declension[edit]

Old Armenian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From օձ (ōj) +‎ -ա- (-a-) +‎ մարտնչիմ (martnčʻim), calque of Ancient Greek ὀφιομάχος (ophiomákhos, fighting with serpents; locust; ichneumon), from ὄφις (óphis, serpent) + μάχομαι (mákhomai, to fight).

Adjective[edit]

օձամարտ (ōjamart)

  1. inimical to serpents
  2. (nominalized) an animal fighting the serpents; locust; ichneumon

Declension[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Armenian: օձամարտ (ōjamart) (learned)

References[edit]

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “օձամարտ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “օձամարտ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “analut‘”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 65