տաղախ

• տախախ (taxax)
• տա̊խա̊խ (tåxåx) – dialectological notation

From Old Armenian տաղախ (tałax).

տաղախ • (tałax)

1. (dialectal, Moks) mud used to cover the roof

   Synonym: փլոլ (pʿlol)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “տաղախ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 363a
• Amatuni, Sahak (1912), “տախախ”, in Hayocʿ baṙ u ban [Armenian Words and Idioms] (in Armenian), Vagharshapat: Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, page 614b
• Orbeli, I. A. (2002), “տա̊խա̊խ”, in Словарь наречия Мокса [Dictionary of Moks Dialect] (Избранные труды в двух томах; II.1) (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, →ISBN, page 330

Of unknown origin. Rare in Armenian. Related to Georgian ტალახი (ṭalaxi, “clay, mud; adobe”), and possibly dialectal Armenian տալախ (talax), տալաղ (talał, “coagulated, clotted”). Ačaṙyan derives տաղախ (tałax) from Georgian-Zan, because the word is more widespread there and may have a native origin: compare Georgian ტალა (ṭala, “pus from bad tooth”). The similarity with Arabic طَلْخ‎ (ṭalḵ, “muddy water”), which represents a rare metathesis of the known root ل ط خ‎ (l-ṭ-ḵ), is accidental.

տաղախ • (tałax)

1. mortar
   • 5th century, Bible, Nehemiah 4.17:

     Եւ էր ժամ զի օգնէր եղբօր իւրում` կրելով զզէնն ի ձեռին իւրում, եւ միւսով ձեռամբն տայր ցեղբայր իւր զխիճն կամ զտաղախ։

     Ew ēr žam zi ōgnēr ełbōr iwrum` krelov zzēnn i jeṙin iwrum, ew miwsov jeṙambn tayr cʿełbayr iwr zxičn kam ztałax.

   Synonym: շաղախ (šałax)

• Armenian: տաղախ (tałax)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “տաղախ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 363a, comparing also to Laz ტოლოფი (ťolopi), which unknown to him is from Proto-Georgian-Zan *ṭlap-
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “տաղախ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Malxaseancʿ, Stepʿan (1945), “տալախ”, in Hayerēn bacʿatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, Yerevan: State Publishing House, page 362b
• Freytag, Georg (1835), “طَلْخٌ”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 63b
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “طَلْخٌ”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 95b
• 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 944
• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “տաղախ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Simon, Zsolt (2013), “Die These der hethitisch-luwischen Lehnwörter im Armenischen: eine kritische Neubetrachtung”, in International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction‎ (in German), volume 10, issue 2, page 111