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մեկնեմ

մեկնեմ

Old Armenian

Verb

մեկնեմ (meknem)

  1. (transitive) to divide, to separate, to isolate; to detach, to loose, to remove
    մեկնել ի ստենէmeknel i stenē ― to wean
    թուղթ մեկնելոյtʿułtʿ mekneloy ― bill of divorce
  2. (transitive) to stretch, to hold out, to stretch forth
  3. (transitive) to explain, to interpret, to comment upon
    թիւր մեկնելtʿiwr meknel ― to interpret malignantly, to misconstrue, to put an ill construction on; to preach a perverse doctrine
  4. (in the mediopassive, intransitive) to separate, to disunite, to part, to get loose; to remove, to go away, to depart, to retire, to go out, to make off, to steal away
    մեկնել ի ցամաքէmeknel i cʿamakʿē ― to bear off from the shore, to take sea-room, to stand out to sea
    մեկնել ի կնոջէmeknel i knoǰē ― to give a bill of divorce
    մեկնել ի հիացումնmeknel i hiacʿumn ― to go into ecstasies
  5. (in the mediopassive, intransitive) to abstain, to forbear; to leave off, to desist, to cease
  6. (in the mediopassive, intransitive) to stretch
  7. (in the mediopassive, intransitive) to explain oneself

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Descendants

References

  • Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), մեկնեմ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), մի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935