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բանամ

բանամ

Old Armenian

Alternative forms

  • բանիմ (banim) (in the mediopassive sense)

Verb

բանամ (banam)  (aorist indicative բացի)

  1. (transitive) to open, to discover, to disclose
    բանալ զգլուխbanal zglux ― to take off one's hat
    բանալ ումեք զսիրտ իւրbanal umekʿ zsirt iwr ― to unbosom, to open one's heart
    բանալ զախորժակbanal zaxoržak ― to excite appetite
    բանալ զշիշbanal zšiš ― to uncork a bottle
    բանալ զկնիքbanal zknikʿ ― to unseal
    բանալ զմիտսbanal zmits ― to illuminate, to enlighten the mind
    բանալ զխցանսbanal zxcʿans ― to unstop
    բանալ զծրարնbanal zcrarn ― to unpack
    բանալ ճանապարհbanal čanaparh ― to trace, to mark out a path; to open a way, to make a road
  2. (transitive) to explain
  3. (transitive) to loosen
  4. (transitive) to perforate, to pierce, to bore
    ծակ բանալcak banal ― to perforate, to pierce, to bore
  5. (transitive) to spread, to enlarge, to extend
  6. (transitive) to unfold, to untwist, to unlink
  7. (transitive) to rub
  8. (in the mediopassive, intransitive) to open; to be detached one from another

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • արտաբանամ (artabanam)
  • բանալի (banali)
  • բաց (bacʿ)
  • վերբանամ (verbanam)
  • տարբանամ (tarbanam)

Descendants

References

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  9. J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010), բանալ”, in Sargsyan, Vahan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, ISBN 978-9939-50-121-5, page 116b
  10. Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), բանալ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935, pages 403–405