բող

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

բող • (boġ)

1. Alternative form of բոխի (boxi)
2. (dialectal) Alternative form of բողկ (boġk)

• բողիկ (bołik) (with -իկ (-ik))

A specialized meaning of unattested *բող (*boł, “plant, sprout”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰol- from *bʰleh₃-. The *բող (*boł) can be seen in բողբոջ (bołboǰ, “shoot, sprout; bud”) and dialectal բոխի (boxi, “a kind of bitter field-plant”), բոխ (box, “tree shoot with buds used as animal feed”), բոխալ (boxal, “to sprout”), probably also բոխի (boxi, “hornbeam”).

բող • (boł)

1. a kind of plant
   • 6th–12th? centuries, Baṙkʿ Gałianosi [The Greek–Armenian Dictionary to Galen]

• իգաբող (igaboł)

• բողբոջ (bołboǰ)

• Middle Armenian: բոխ (box), բոխի (boxi)
  • Armenian: բոխի (boxi), պէխէ (pēxē), պէխի (pēxi), պօ̈խէ (pöxē), պօ̈խի (pöxi); բեխի (bexi), պեխի (pexi)
    • → Northern Kurdish: box, boxe (“Ferula”)
    • → Zazaki: boğîk
• → Classical Syriac: ܒܠܝܩܐ‎ (blyqˀ /⁠ballīqā⁠/, “Ferula communis”) (perhaps)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “բող”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 464
• Ačaṙyan, Hračʿya (1940) Hayocʿ lezvi patmutʿyun [History of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 42–43
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “բող”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 180
• Petrosean, Matatʿeay (1879), “բող”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy