աղբ

Inherited from Old Armenian աղբ (ałb).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /ɑχp/, [ɑχp]
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /ɑχb/, [ɑχp]

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աղբ • (aġb)

1. garbage, trash, rubbish

   Synonym: զիբիլ (zibil) (dialectal)

2. (rare) feces, excrement

• → Turkish: ağb

• Dum-Tragut, Jasmine (2009) Armenian: Modern Eastern Armenian (London Oriental and African Language Library; 14), Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 24

Probably related to Hittite [script needed] (šalpa-), [script needed] (šalpi, “dung?”) and derived from Proto-Indo-European *sal-bʰo- (“dirty”) (the o-stem) and *sal-bʰi- (“dirt, excrement”) (the i-stem), from*solH- (“dirt, dirty”). Alternatively, the Hittite and Armenian words are from Proto-Indo-European *selpo- and cognate to Sanskrit Sanskrit सर्पिष् (sarpíṣ-, “molten butter, lard”), German Salbe (“ointment”).

աղբ • (ałb)

1. excrement, dung, feces
2. muck, manure

   աղբ արկանել ― ałb arkanel ― to manure, to muck

• Armenian: աղբ (aġb)
  • → Turkish: ağb

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “աղբ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “աղբ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “aɫb”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 32
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “աղբ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate‎^[1], PhD dissertation, Leiden University, page 61