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մռմռամ

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Old Armenian

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Etymology

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An onomatopoeic reduplication, probably going back to Proto-Indo-European. Compare Latin murmuro.

Verb

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մռմռամ (mṙmṙam)

  1. to murmur, to grumble, to mutter, to growl (of animals)
    մռմռալ ընդ միմեանսmṙmṙal ənd mimeansto fall one upon another furiously or ferociously, tooth and nail, to be cruelly and obstinately bent against one another, to be mutually enraged
    մրմռեալ ալիքmrmṙeal alikʻangry billows, surging waves

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Armenian: մռմռալ (mṙmṙal)

References

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  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “մռմռամ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “մռմռամ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “մռմռալ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “mṙmṙam”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 481