ողբ

From Old Armenian ողբ (ołb).

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

ողբ • (ołb)

1. lamentation, wail, bewailing

   Synonyms: շիվան (šivan), լացուկոծ (lacʿukoc), կոծ (koc)

• ողբալ (ołbal)

• Dum-Tragut, Jasmine (2009) Armenian: Modern Eastern Armenian (London Oriental and African Language Library; 14), Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 24
• Barsełyan, Hovhannes (1973), “ողբ”, in Hayeren ułłagrakan-ułłaxosakan, terminabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Orthographic–Orthoepic Terminological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Luys, page 740a

From Proto-Indo-European *olbʰ-, grown from the onomatopoeic root *ol-, *el-, whence possibly also աղաչեմ (ałačʿem), աղաւթք (aławtʿkʿ), աղատել (ałatel), աղատ (ałat), աղմուկ (ałmuk). Cognate with Lithuanian ulbauti (“to warble”) and Ancient Greek ὀλοφύρομαι (olophúromai, “to lament”). Further cognate with Lithuanian nu-aldė́ti (“to sound”), Old Norse jálmr (“noise”), Saterland Frisian ulken (“to cry, to mock”), Swedish alken (“to begin to growl”), Ancient Greek ὀλολύζω (ololúzō, “to cry out loudly, call, moan”), ἔλεγος (élegos).

ողբ • (ołb)

1. lamentation, complaint, groaning, wailing, moans, tears

   ողբք ― ołbkʿ ― elegy

   ողբս առնուլ, յօրինել, զողբս հարկանել ― ołbs aṙnul, yōrinel, zołbs harkanel ― to lament

• Armenian: ողբ (ołb)

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “ողբ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “ողբ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “ողբ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), “⁴el-, ol-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 306