kʾkwm
Middle Persian
Etymology
The origin is uncertain. Related to Old Armenian կնգմենի (kngmeni, “ermine fur”).
Noun
kʾkwm • (kākom) (Book Pahlavi)
Derived terms
- [script needed] (kākom ī spēd, “ermine”, literally “white stoat”)
Descendants
- Persian: قاقم (qâqom)
- Tajik: қоқум (qoqum)
- → Arabic: قَاقُم (qāqum), قَاقُوم (qāqūm)
- → Azerbaijani: qaqum
- → Georgian: ყარყუმი (q̇arq̇umi)
- → Kurdish:
- → Ottoman Turkish: قاقم (qāqum)
- → Pashto: قاقم (ḳāḳúm)
References
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “kākom”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 48
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “կնգում”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 607ab