բող

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /boʁ/, [boʁ]
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /poʁ/, [pʰoʁ]

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բող • (boġ)

1. alternative form of բոխի (boxi)
2. (dialectal) alternative form of բողկ (boġk)

• բողիկ (bołik) (with -իկ (-ik))

A specialized meaning of unattested *բող (*boł, “plant, sprout”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰol- from *bʰleh₃-. The *բող (*boł) can be seen in բողբոջ (bołboǰ, “shoot, sprout; bud”) and dialectal բոխի (boxi, “a kind of bitter field-plant”), բոխ (box, “tree shoot with buds used as animal feed”), բոխալ (boxal, “to sprout”), probably also բոխի (boxi, “hornbeam”).

բող • (boł)

1. a kind of plant
   • 6th–12th? centuries, Baṙkʻ Gałianosi [The Greek–Armenian Dictionary to Galen]

• իգաբող (igaboł)

• բողբոջ (bołboǰ)

• Middle Armenian: բոխ (box), բոխի (boxi)
  • Armenian: բոխի (boxi), պէխէ (pēxē), պէխի (pēxi), պօ̈խէ (pöxē), պօ̈խի (pöxi) — Karabakh, dialectological notation, բեխի (bexi), պեխի (pexi) — dialectal, normalized notation
    • → Northern Kurdish: box, boxe (“Ferula”)
    • → Zazaki: boğîk
• → Classical Syriac: ܒܠܝܩܐ (blyqˀ /⁠ballīqā⁠/, “Ferula communis”) (perhaps)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բող”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 464
• Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1940) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun [History of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 42–43
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “բող”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 180
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “բող”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy