եփել

Armenian

Alternative forms

  • էփել (ēpʻel) colloquial, dialectal

Etymology

From Old Armenian եփեմ (epʻem). Related to Ancient Greek ἕψω (hépsō, to boil, seethe); see there for more.

Pronunciation

Verb

եփել • (epʻel)

  1. (transitive) to boil, to cook in boiling water
  2. (transitive) to cook, to prepare food

Inflection

References

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “եփել”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “եփել”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἔψω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 492
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