մեկնեմ

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Old Armenian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From մեկին (mekin).

Verb[edit]

մեկնեմ (meknem)

  1. (transitive) to divide, to separate, to isolate; to detach, to loose, to remove
    մեկնել ի ստենէmeknel i stenēto wean
    թուղթ մեկնելոյtʻułtʻ mekneloybill of divorce
  2. (transitive) to stretch, to hold out, to stretch forth
  3. (transitive) to explain, to interpret, to comment upon
    թիւր մեկնելtʻiwr meknelto interpret malignantly, to misconstrue, to put an ill construction on; to preach a perverse doctrine
  4. (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 cʻamakʻēto bear off from the shore, to take sea-room, to stand out to sea
    մեկնել ի կնոջէmeknel i knoǰēto give a bill of divorce
    մեկնել ի հիացումնmeknel i hiacʻumnto go into ecstasies
  5. (mediopassive, intransitive) to abstain, to forbear; to leave off, to desist, to cease
  6. (mediopassive, intransitive) to stretch
  7. (mediopassive, intransitive) to explain oneself

Conjugation[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Armenian: մեկնել (meknel)

References[edit]

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “մեկնեմ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “մի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page մեկին