երախ

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian երախ (erax). Doublet of ռեխ (ṙex).

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

երախ • (erax)

1. mouth (of an animal), maw, jaws
2. (derogatory) mouth (of a human), piehole, trap, cakehole
3. mouth (of a pipe or pipeline)
4. (figuratively) opening, gap

• ռեխ (ṙex)

• Aġayan, Ēduard (1976) “երախ”, in Ardi hayereni bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Hayastan

A Middle Iranian borrowing. Compare Sogdian 𐽀𐼲𐼰𐼳 (rɣʾh), Yagnobi рах (rax). Dialectal ռեխ (ṙex) is borrowed from an unidentified New Iranian representative of the same family. Further possibly related to Avestan 𐬯𐬭𐬀𐬑𐬙𐬌 (sraxti, “edge, corner”), Persian رخ (rox, “cheek”), رخ (rax, “chink, notch”).

երախ • (erax)

1. mouth (of humans); muzzle (of animals)

• բերան (beran)

• երախան (eraxan) (possibly)

• → Armenian: երախ (erax) (learned)

• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836) “երախ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 666c
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “երախ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, pages 34–35
• Bailey, H. W. (1979) “rahā”, in Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 360b
• Filippone, Ela (2013) “Yaghnobi Body Part Terms: Some Introductory Notes”, in Toxtasʹjev S. R., Lurʹje P. B., editors, Commentationes Iranicae. Sbornik statej k 90-letiju Vladimira Aronoviča Livšica‎, Saint Petersburg: Nestor-Istorija, →ISBN, page 642
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period]‎ (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 524
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “երախ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 219b
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 1001, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1001
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “երախ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 159b