# մկրատ
## Armenian
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle Armenian մկրատ (mkrat), from Arabic مِقْرَاض (miqrāḍ).

### Pronunciation

* (Eastern Armenian) IPA: /məkˈɾɑt/, [məkɾɑ́t]
* (Western Armenian) IPA: /məɡˈɾɑd/, [məɡɾɑ́d]
* Audio (Eastern Armenian):(file)

### Noun

մկրատ • (mkrat)
* scissors
    եղունգների մկրատ ― eġungneri mkrat ― nail scissors
** ca. 1680–1684, Baṙ girg taliani [An Armenian–Italian Dictionary published in Venice] page 40:մկրատ․ ֆօռֆէmkrat; fōṙfēմկրատ (mkrat) = forfe

#### Derived terms

* եղունգների մկրատ (eġungneri mkrat)

### References

* ↑ Orengo, Alessandro (2019) “Il ԲԱՌ ԳԻՐԳ ՏԱԼԻԱՆԻ Un dizionario armeno-italiano del XVII secolo”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15), Leuven: Peeters, page 233

## Middle Armenian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِقْرَاض (miqrāḍ). First etymologized by Schröder.

### Noun

մկրատ • (mkrat)
* scissors
    Synonym: ձևիչ (jewičʻ)
* (zoology) chela, claw, pincer
    Synonym: ճանկ (čank)
* (botany) vine tendril

#### Derived terms

* մկրատել (mkratel)
* մկրատիկ (mkratik)

#### Descendants

(or borrowed directly from Arabic)
* → Georgian: მაკრატელი (maḳraṭeli)
** → Abkhaz: амаркаты́л (amarkʼatʼə́l)
** → Bats: მაკარტაჼ (maḳarṭã)
** → Mingrelian: მარგატელი (margaṭeli)
*** → Georgian: მარგატელი (margaṭeli), მაგატელი (magaṭeli)
** → Hinukh: мокӏортӏи (mok’ort’i)
* → Budukh: мыкӏраьтӏ (mıkʼrätʼ)
* → Lezgi: мукӏратӏ (muḳraṭ)
* → Khinalug: мукӏрад (muḳrad)
* → Kryts: mık'rət'

### References

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “մկրատ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, pages 330–331
* Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1837) “մկրատ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 285b
* Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 271
* Ġazaryan, Ṙuben, Avetisyan, Henrik (2009) “մկրատ”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 523a
* Klimov, G. A. (1994) “О дагестанских арменизмах [On Daghestanian Armenisms]”, in Этимология‎, numbers 1991–1993, Moscow, page 158 of 164–165
* Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (2000) “մկրատ”, in Martiros Minassian, editor, Baṙagirkʻ storin hayerēni i matenagrutʻeancʻ ŽA–ŽĒ darucʻ [Dictionary of Middle Armenian Based on the Literature of 11–17th Centuries]‎, edited from the author's unfinished manuscript written 1884–1915, Geneva: Martiros Minassian, page 517
* Palatecʻi, Gēorg Dpir (1877) “մկրատ”, in “Baṙkʻ Vastakocʻ grocʻ [A vocabulary to Geoponica]”, in Ġewond Ališan, editor, Girkʻ vastakocʻ [Geoponica] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 253
* Schröder, Johann Joachim (1711) Thesaurus linguae Armenicae antiquae et hodiernae, Amsterdam, page 46
* Vinogradova, O. I., Klimov, G. A. (1979) “Об арменизмах в дагестанских языках [About Armenisms in Dagestanian languages]”, in Этимология‎, number 1977, Moscow, page 158 of 154–158