թափ

Inherited from Old Armenian թափ (tʻapʻ).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /tʰɑpʰ/, [tʰɑpʰ]
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /tɑp/, [tʰɑpʰ]

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թափ • (tʻapʻ)

1. sweep; power, might; impetuosity; swing

   թափով ― tʻapʻov ― with all one's strength; rapidly

   թափ տալ ― tʻapʻ tal ― to shake

2. alternative form of թափք (tʻapʻkʻ)

The sense “bottom” seems to be the original one, which has developed new and unexpected meanings. Ačaṙean leaves the origin of the word open. J̌ahukyan proposes derivation from Proto-Indo-European *təpʰ-, an ablaut grade without s-mobile of *stepʰ-, a possible by-form of *stebʰ-, *step- (“post, pillar, stump; to support; to stomp on”). For this root see Pokorny, without the Armenian. Among the cognates note Sanskrit स्थापयति (sthāpayati, “to put, to place; to establish”), Lithuanian stẽpinti (“to fasten”), Russian стопа́ (stopá).

թափ • (tʻapʻ)

1. bottom; depth, profound depth, abyss

   ի թափս դժոխոց ― i tʻapʻs džoxocʻ ― in the depths or hell

   թափ անցանել, ընդ թափ անցանել, զթափ անցանել ― tʻapʻ ancʻanel, ənd tʻapʻ ancʻanel, ztʻapʻ ancʻanel ― to penetrate, to pierce, to run through, to bore; to thread, to spit

   թափ անկանել, թափ մտանել ― tʻapʻ ankanel, tʻapʻ mtanel ― to run rapidly, to pass through, or traverse with impetuosity, to enter with violence or impetus

   թափ հանել, թափ հասուցանել, ընդ թափ անցուցանել ― tʻapʻ hanel, tʻapʻ hasucʻanel, ənd tʻapʻ ancʻucʻanel ― to pass, to bore, to pierce, to transfix, to thread, to run through

   թափն ընդ թափն ― tʻapʻn ənd tʻapʻn ― by piercing, with penetration

2. (in the plural) sheath, scabbard
3. sweep; power, might; impetuosity; swing

   զթափ առնուլ ― ztʻapʻ aṙnul ― to prepare for an effort, to gather oneself up

   թափ տալ ― tʻapʻ tal ― to hurl, to launch, to fling, to throw

   թափ կրից ― tʻapʻ kricʻ ― fit, outbreak, burst of passion

4. turning, roaming, circulating

   թափ առնուլ, զթափ առեալ շրջել ― tʻapʻ aṙnul, ztʻapʻ aṙeal šrǰel ― to wander, to roam

• թափօր (tʻapʻōr) (perhaps)

• Armenian: թափ (tʻapʻ), թափք (tʻapʻkʻ)