կմախք

Armenian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian կմախք (kmaxkʿ).

Pronunciation

Noun

կմախք (kmaxkʿ)

  1. skeleton
  2. (figuratively, pejorative) very thin person

Declension

Derived terms


Old Armenian

Etymology

Borrowed from Akkadian [script needed] (kimāḫu), [script needed] (gimāḫu, grave, tomb) + (-kʿ),[1][2], whence also Aramaic [script needed] (gmḥ, burial niche, loculus)[3]. The Akkadian word is itself borrowed from Sumerian [script needed] (kimaḫ, grave; a cultic place)[4] The same etymon is reflected also in Old Armenian կմախի-ք (kmaxi-kʿ, lamentation over the dead) and the place name Կամախ (Kamax, Kamax, the necropolis of Armenian kings).[2]

Noun

կմախք (kmaxkʿ) pl

  1. skeleton
    • 951 CE – 1003, Grigor Narekacʿi, Matean ołbergutʿean [Book of Lamentations]
      [] անարգեալ կմախք և իբր զանպիտան առ ոտն կոխեալ։
      [] anargeal kmaxkʿ ew ibr zanpitan aṙ otn koxeal.
      [] contemptible skeleton, like some useless thing trodden under foot.

Usage notes

Baṙgirkʿ Hayocʿ glosses կմախք (kmaxkʿ) as “ոսկերք (oskerkʿ) or կոտորածք (kotorackʿ)” and the verb կմախել (kmaxel) as “կարթահարել (kartʿaharel) or ջլատել (ǰlatel)[5], but Ačaṙean considers these meanings spurious[2].

Declension

Derived terms

  • կմախեմ (kmaxem)
  • կմախիք (kmaxikʿ)
  • Կամախ (Kamax)

Descendants

References

  1. Brockelmann C. (1898), “Ein assyrisches Lehnwort im Armenischen”, in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete, volume 13, pages 327–328.
  2. 1 2 3 Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973), կմախ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume II, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 605
  3. Hoftijzer, J; Jongeling, K. (1995), “gmḥ”, in Dictionary of the North-West Semitic Inscriptions (Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Der Nahe und Mittlere Osten; 21), volume I, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, pages 225–226
  4. kimah”, in The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary, University of Pennsylvania, 2006
  5. Eremia Mełrecʿi (1698), կմախք”, in Baṙgirkʿ hayocʿ [Armenian Dictionary] (in Armenian), Livorno: tpagr. Sargis Evdokiacʿu Sahetʿču, page 164

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