ձագ

From Old Armenian ձագ (jag).

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [d͡zɑkʰ]

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ձագ • (jag)

1. the young of any animal, baby animal

Connected with Albanian zog, perhaps also Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (zhk'), 𐫉𐫍𐫃‎ (zhg /zahag/, “offspring, child”), Parthian 𐫉𐫍𐫃‎ (zhg /zahag/, “offspring, child”), Persian زه‎ (zah, “offspring of men or of cattle”), زاق‎ (zâq, “the young of anything”), Pashto [script needed] (zag), Sogdian [script needed] (zʾk /zāk/, “child”), which go back to Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰāgʷʰ- (Pokorny, Ačaṙean, J̌ahukyan) or *ǵʰāgʰu- (Olsen). Alternatively, we may be dealing with a substrate word of the shape *ǵʰāgʰ- or the like (Martirosyan).

According to Hübschmann (followed by Pokorny), Armenian is borrowed from Iranian, but in that case *զագ (*zag) was expected, as is pointed out by J̌ahukyan and Olsen.

According to Ačaṙean, Georgian ზაქი (zaki, “buffalo calf”) and Classical Syriac ܙܓܐ‎ (zagā, “chicken”) are from Iranian.

ձագ • (jag)

1. youngling, nestling

   ձագ թռչնոց ― jag tʿṙčʿnocʿ ― young of a bird, nestling, brood; young sparrow

   ձագ հաւու ― jag hawu ― chick, small chicken, pullet

   ձագ կենդանեաց ― jag kendaneacʿ ― young one, little one of animals, pup, whelp, cub

   ձագունք ― jagunkʿ ― the young or little ones, the progeny

   բբիւն ձագուց ― bbiwn jagucʿ ― the chirping or twittering of nestlings

   ձագ մատն ― jag matn ― little finger

   ձագս հանել ― jags hanel ― to brood, to sit on eggs; to have young, to litter, to bring forth

   ձագու/ձագի լեզու ― jagu/jagi lezu ― caryophyllata, herb-bennet; seed of the ash-tree

2. little bird, sparrow

• Armenian: ձագ (jag)
• Kurdish: تصاق‎ (tsaq)
• Cappadocian Greek: ζάκα (záka)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), “ձագ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 141–142
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1837), “ձագ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 144b
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 185
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʿ lezvi patmutʿyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 127
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010), “ձագ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 473a
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 428
• Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 110–111
• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “ձագ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 424b
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume II, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 409