զռլամա

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Armenian[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Possibly from Ottoman Turkish زرلامق (zırlamak, to keep up a continuous noise, to whine), with the semantic development "to whine, to make a noise" to "to be obvious, to be impossible to hide or ignore" to "huge, unpleasantly big". This semantic range is also partially seen in the related word զռալ (zṙal, to bray like a donkey, to cry out; to be obvious, to be revealed).

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Adjective[edit]

զռլամա (zṙlama) (superlative ամենազռլամա) (dialectal, colloquial)

  1. huge, big, enormous (especially in a negative sense)

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References[edit]

  • Malxaseancʻ, Stepʻan (1944–1945) “զռլամայ”, in Hayerēn bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: State Publishing House
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2001–2012), “զռլամա”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Hayastan
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زرلامق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1008