տարմ

• տարբ (tarb) (dialectal, Tbilisi)

From Old Armenian տարմ (tarm).

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): [tɑɾm]

տարմ • (tarm)

1. flock (of birds)
2. group (of other animals)
3. Synonym of տարմահավ (tarmahav)

• (flock of birds): երամ (eram)

• “տարմ”, in Žamanakakicʿ hayocʿ lezvi bacʿatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, 1980, page 466b

Related to տորմ (torm).

Ačaṙyan rejects all proposals and leaves the origin open.

J̌ahukyan derives տարմ (tarm) and տորմ (torm) from Proto-Indo-European *dr̥ga-(s)mo- and *dorgʰ-(s)mo- respectively, from the root *dergʰ- (“to grasp; to take hold of”). See Pokorny for this root. Among the cognates J̌ahukyan compares especially Middle Irish dremm, Irish dream (“tribe, people; bundle, handful, manipulus”) (from *dr̥g-smo-), Breton dramm (“sheaf”), Ancient Greek δράγμα (drágma, “handful; sheath”).

տարմ • (tarm)

1. group of birds or other animals

   տարմ թռչնոց ― tarm tʿṙčʿnocʿ ― flock, flight of birds

   տարմ տարմ ― tarm tarm ― in flocks, in troops, in great numbers

2. Clipping of տարմահաւ (tarmahaw).

• տորմ (torm)

• Armenian: տարմ (tarm)
  • Georgian: ტარბი (ṭarbi)

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “տարմ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 695b
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1837), “տարմ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 857c
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “տարմ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 387a
• Łazarean, Ṙ. S. (2000), “տարմ”, in Tʿosunean G. B., editor, Grabari baṙaran [Dictionary of Old Armenian] (in Armenian), volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 549a
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume I, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 212 of 212, 213
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1991), “Stugabanutʿyunner [Etymologies]”, in Patma-banasirakan handes [Historical-Philological Journal]‎ (in Armenian), issue 2, pages 42–43