kʾkwm
Middle Persian
Etymology
The origin is uncertain. Related to Old Armenian կնգմենի (kngmeni, “ermine fur”).
Noun
kʾkwm • (kākom) (Book Pahlavi)
- stoat
Derived terms
- [script needed] (kākom ī spēd, “ermine”, literally “white stoat”)
Descendants
- Persian: قاقم (qâqom)
- Tajik: қоқум (qoqum)
- → Arabic: قَاقُم (qāqum), قَاقُوم (qāqūm)
- → Azerbaijani: qaqum
- → Georgian: ყარყუმი (q̇arq̇umi)
- → Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: ququme
- Central Kurdish: قاقوم (qaqum)
- → Ottoman Turkish: قاقم (qāqum)
- Turkish: kakum, kakım
- → Armenian: քաքում (kʿakʿum), գագում (gagum)
- → Pashto: قاقم (ḳāḳúm)
References
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “kākom”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 48
- Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973), “կնգում”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume II, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 607ab