քահալ
Appearance
Armenian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Armenian քահալ (kʻahal), գահալ (gahal), ultimately from Arabic كَهْل (kahl).
Adjective
[edit]- sluggish, lazy
- Synonym: ծույլ (cuyl)
- 1636, Simēon Lehacʻi, Ułegrutʻiwn [Travel Accounts] :[1][2]
- Եւ յորժամ ճանապարհ ելաք, այն արագ իշվան հազիւ շարժէին, քահալ եւ ծոյլ եղեն
- Ew yoržam čanaparh elakʻ, ayn arag išvan haziw šaržēin, kʻahal ew coyl eġen
- Translation by George A. Bournoutian
- When we started our journey, the swift donkeys moved with difficulty and appeared to be old and lazy.
- Եւ յորժամ ճանապարհ ելաք, այն արագ իշվան հազիւ շարժէին, քահալ եւ ծոյլ եղեն
- ca. 1680–1684, Baṙ girg taliani [An Armenian–Italian Dictionary published in Venice] page 13:[3]
- գահալ․ փօլթռօնէ
- gahal; pʻōltʻṙōnē
- գահալ (gahal) = poltrone
- գահալ․ փօլթռօնէ
Alternative forms
[edit]- գահալ (gahal)
References
[edit]- ^ Akinean, H. N., editor (1936), Simēon dpri Lehacʻwoy uġegrutʻiwn, taregrutʻiwn ew yišatakarankʻ (Azgayin matenadaran; 141), Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 227
- ^ Bournoutian, George A. (2007) The Travel Accounts of Simēon of Poland (Armenian Studies Series; 10)[1], Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers, pages 201–202
- ^ Orengo, Alessandro (2019) “Il ԲԱՌ ԳԻՐԳ ՏԱԼԻԱՆԻ Un dizionario armeno-italiano del XVII secolo”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15), Leuven: Peeters, page 219
Further reading
[edit]- Ġazaryan, Ṙuben, Avetisyan, Henrik (2009) “գահալ”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press