խոշտանգեմ

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Old Armenian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Perhaps a borrowing from an Iranian compound, the constituents of which are cognate with Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (xwastan /⁠hwstn'⁠/, to tread, trample; to thresh) and Sanskrit घन (ghana, destroyer, murderer; slaying, murder), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen-.[1]

Verb[edit]

խոշտանգեմ (xoštangem)

  1. (transitive) to pain, torment, torture
  2. (transitive) to thrash, beat

Conjugation[edit]

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Descendants[edit]

  • Armenian: խոշտանգել (xoštangel)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 316

Further reading[edit]

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “խոշտանգ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “խոշտանգեմ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 141–142
  • J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “խոշտանգ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “խոշտանգեմ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy