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օձամարտ

օձամարտ

Armenian

Adjective

օձամարտ (ōjamart)

  1. fighting against snakes

Declension


Old Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From օձ (ōj) + -ա- (-a-) + մարտնչիմ (martnčʿim), translating Ancient Greek ὀφιομάχος (ophiomákhos, fighting with serpents; locust; ichneumon), from ὄφις (óphis, serpent) + μάχομαι (mákhomai, to fight).

Adjective

օձամարտ (ōjamart)

  1. inimical to serpents
  2. (as a noun) an animal fighting the serpents; locust; ichneumon

Declension

Descendants

References

  • Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), օձամարտ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), օձամարտ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010), “analut‘”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 65