ձաղ

From Old Armenian ձաղ (jał).

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

ձաղ • (jaġ)

1. (archaic) derision, mockery

• Barseġyan, Hovhannes (1973) “ձաղ”, in Hayeren uġġagrakan-uġġaxosakan, terminabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Orthographic–Orthoepic Terminological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Luys

Perhaps of Proto-Indo-European origin and cognate with Ancient Greek χλεύη (khleúē), Proto-Germanic *glaumaz, Russian глум (glum).

ձաղ • (jał)

1. derision, mockery

   ձաղ առնել ― jał aṙnel ― to taunt, to rally, to scoff, jeer or laugh at, to mock, to make game or sport of, to turn into ridicule, to make laughing-stock of

   ձաղ լինել ― jał linel ― to make a fool of oneself, to expose oneself to the laughter of every body, to be laughed at, to be the laughing-stock of

• Armenian: ձաղ (jaġ)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ձաղ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “ձաղ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “ձաղ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 428