բղուղ

From Middle Armenian բղուղ (bġuġ).

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

բղուղ • (bġuġ) (dialectal)

1. an earthenware jar for holding pickles, oil, milk, matzoon etc.
   • ca. 1680–1684, Baṙ girg taliani [An Armenian–Italian Dictionary published in Venice] page 10:[1]

     բղուղ․ ծառայ

     bġuġ; caṙay

     բղուղ (bġuġ) = zara

• բողող (boġoġ) — Arapgir

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “բղուղ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, pages 195–196
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բղուկ”, 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 456b

The origin is uncertain. Traditionally considered a variant of the synonymous բղուկ (bġuk) and derived from Persian بلوک (baluk, boluk, “cup of wine”), comparing also Persian بلخ (balx, “wine container”).

բղուղ • (bġuġ)

1. jar

• Armenian: բղուղ (bġuġ)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “բղուղ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, pages 195–196
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բղուկ”, 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 456b
• Asatrjan, G. (1988) “Суффиксальный элемент -l- и некоторые вопросы фоносемантики в армянском языке [The Suffixal Element -l- and Some Problems of Phonosemantics in the Armenian Language]”, in Patma-banasirakan handes [Historical-Philological Journal]‎ (in Russian), number 2, Yerevan: Academy Press, page 172 of 160–178
• Hiwnkʻearpēyēntean, Yovhannēs (1894) “բղուկ”, in Stugabanakan baṙaran hayocʻ lezui [Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Language]‎ (in Armenian), Constantinople: G. Paġtatlean Press, page 300a
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1970) Hayerenə ew hndevropakan hin lezunerə [Armenian and Ancient Indo-European Languages] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 156
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “բղուկ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 131a
• Ġazaryan, Ṙ. S., Avetisyan, H. M. (2009) “բղուղ”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 121a
• Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (2000) “բղուղ”, in Martiros Minassian, editor, Baṙagirkʻ storin hayerēni i matenagrutʻeancʻ ŽA–ŽĒ darucʻ [Dictionary of Middle Armenian Based on the Literature of 11–17th Centuries]‎, edited from the author's unfinished manuscript written 1884–1915, Geneva: Martiros Minassian, page 112
• Petersson, Herbert (1916) “Beiträge zur armenischen Wortkunde”, in Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung (in German), volume 47, number 3/4, page 261 of 240–291
• Schultheiss, Tassilo (1961) “Hethitisch und Armenisch”, in Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung auf dem Gebiete der Indogermanischen Sprachen‎, number 77, page 233