մաքս

Armenian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian մաքս (makʿs).

Pronunciation

Noun

մաքս (makʿs)

  1. custom, tariff, toll, duty, excise

Declension

Derived terms


Old Armenian

Etymology

From Classical Syriac ܡܟܣܐ (maḵsā).[1][2][3] First etymologized by Schröder.[4]

Noun

մաքս (makʿs)

  1. custom, tariff, toll, duty, excise

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  1. Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 311
  2. Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), մաքս”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 292ab
  3. 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 932
  4. Schröder, Johann Joachim (1711) Thesaurus linguae Armenicae antiquae et hodiernae, Amsterdam, page 46

Further reading

  • Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1837), մաքս”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 232b
  • Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), մաքս”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 461b
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