դդում

• դնդում (dndum) – dialectal

From Old Armenian դդում (ddum).

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [dəˈtʰum]
• (Western Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [tʰəˈtʰum]

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դդում • (ddum)

1. gourd, Cucurbita[1]
2. (figuratively) dumb person, dummy, fool

• Lomavren: dətum

A loanword of unknown origin.[1][2] Romani dudum (“gourd”) is usually treated as an Armenian borrowing, but it may be independently borrowed from the same source[3]. Has been compared to Akkadian 𒌑𒁺𒊌𒁺𒈬 (^U₂.du-uk-du-mu /dukdumu, dugdumu/, “an unknown plant”),[4][5] Hebrew דוּדָאִים‎ (ḏūḏāʾīm, “mandrake”) and Sanskrit दुर्द्रुम (durdruma), दुद्रुम (dudruma, “green onion”),[6] दुन्दम (dundama, “drum”)[7]. Note also the Indo-Aryan families of Sanskrit दुग्धिका (dugdhikā, “sort of Asclepias or Oxystelma esculentum”),[8] दुग्धिन् (dugdhin, “milky”),[9] and तुम्ब (tumba, “the gourd Lagenaria vulgaris”),[10] in which many similar words are found referring to various types of gourds, including Marathi दुधीण (dudhīṇ), Hindi दूधी (dūdhī, “bottle gourd”) (→ English dudhi).

դդում • (ddum)

1. gourd, Lagenaria
   • Ephrem the Syrian, Yayn čaṙēn or vasn erašti ew vašxaṙuacʿ [Homily on Draught and Usurers] :[11]

     Իսկ ՚ի գիջոյն և ՚ի թեթևէն՝ որ ըստ մասանց ջերմին է, պրաս․ իսկ հողանման ջերմ կաղամբ և այլ ա՟մ կծու․ իսկ թեթևագոյնսն ՚ի դդումսն և ՚ի սեխս և ՚ի մեղրապոպս։

     Isk ’i giǰoyn ew ’i tʿetʿewēn, or əst masancʿ ǰermin ē, pras; isk hołanman ǰerm kałamb ew ayl a.m kcu; isk tʿetʿewagoynsn ’i ddumsn ew ’i sexs ew ’i mełrapops.

2. a hollowed out gourd as a water container

• Armenian: դդում (ddum), դնդում (dndum)
  • Lomavren: dətum
• → Romani: dudum

• Ališan, Łewond (1895), “դդում”, in Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʿiwn [Armenian Botany] (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 573, page 142
• Awgerean, Mkrtičʿ; Čēlalean, Grigor (1865), “դդում”, in Aṙjeṙn baṙaran haykaznean lezui [Pocket Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 238a
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836), “դդում”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 607b
• J̌axǰaxean, Manuēl (1837), “դդում”, in Baṙgirkʿ i barbaṙ hay ew italakan [Armenian–Italian Dictionary], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 401b
• Łazarean, Ṙ. S. (2000), “դդում”, in Tʿosunean G. B., editor, Grabari baṙaran [Dictionary of Old Armenian] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 358a
• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “դդում”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 137b
• Seidel, Ernst (1908) Mechithar’s, des Meisterarztes aus Her, ‘Trost bei Fiebern’: nach dem Venediger Druck vom Jahre 1832 zum ersten Male aus dem Mittelarmenischen übersetzt und erläutert (in German), Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, § 36, page 121