ծաղր

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Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Armenian ծաղր (całr).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ծաղր (caġr)

  1. mockery, sneer, gibe, scoff

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Old Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Grown from *ծաղ- (*cał-), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵl̥h₂-, *ǵelh₂-, whence also ծիծաղ (cicał). Cognate with Ancient Greek γελάω (geláō, to laugh), γέλως (gélōs, laughter), γαλήνη (galḗnē, calm at sea), γαληνός (galēnós, calm).

Noun[edit]

ծաղր (całr)

  1. laugh, laughter, laughing
    զծաղու գալ, ի ծաղր հատանիլzcału gal, i całr hatanilto laugh, to burst out laughing, to suffocate with laughter
  2. derision, mockery, raillery, banter; sneer
    ծաղր առնել, դնել, հեղուլcałr aṙnel, dnel, hełulto laugh; to joke, to jest; to laugh at, to scorn, to deride, to make sport of, to ridicule
    ծաղր լինել, կալ, մնալcałr linel, kal, mnalto be laughed at, derided, ridiculed, made a jest of, to make oneself the laughing-stock of
    ծաղր առնել զոք յայտ յանդիմանcałr aṙnel zokʻ yayt yandimanto scorn, to deride one to his face
  3. something worth mocking

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Descendants[edit]

  • Armenian: ծաղր (caġr)

References[edit]

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ծաղր”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “ծաղր”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “ծաղր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 337