# մարագ
## Armenian
### Alternative forms

* մարաք (marakʻ) — Akhaltsikhe, Goris, Ararat, Kharberd, Erzurum, Hamshen, Sivas, Salmas, Aslanbeg
* մարաք$^յ$ (marakʻ$^y$) — Moks, Vozm
* մա՛րա̈ք$^յ$ (máräkʻ$^y$) — Karabakh
* մարագՙ (maragʻ) — Alashkert, Mush

### Etymology

From Middle Armenian մարագ (marag).

### Pronunciation

* (Eastern Armenian) IPA: /mɑˈɾɑkʰ/, [mɑɾɑ́kʰ]
* (Western Armenian) IPA: /mɑˈɾɑk/, [mɑɾɑ́kʰ]

### Noun

մարագ • (marag)
* hayloft
    Synonym: հարդանոց (hardanocʻ)

#### Derived terms

* մարագատեղ (maragateġ)

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: mərək
* → Turkish: merek, marak, mereḫ, mırık
* Kurdish:
** → Northern Kurdish: merek, mereg
* → Zazaki: merek, mereke, mereki
* → Georgian: მერეგი (meregi) (Imerkhevi dialect)
* → Mingrelian: მარაკა (maraḳa, “goat shed”) (perhaps)

### References

* ↑ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “մարագ”, 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, page 273b

### Further reading

* մարագ on the Armenian Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{hy}$
* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “մարագ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, pages 760–761

## Middle Armenian
### Alternative forms

* մարաք (marakʻ)

### Etymology

Considered a word of unknown origin. Probably an Iranian borrowing: compare Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (mlk' /⁠marag⁠/, “quantity, number”), whence Georgian მარაგი (maragi, “fund, hoard, spare, spares, stockpile, store”). Thus, the original meaning was "provisions, store". On the ultimate origin of the Iranian see Cheung.

### Noun

մարագ • (marag)
* hayloft

#### Descendants

* Armenian: մարագ (marag), մարաք (marakʻ) — Akhaltsikhe, Goris, Ararat, Kharberd, Erzurum, Hamshen, Sivas, Salmas, Aslanbeg, մարաք$^յ$ (marakʻ$^y$) — Moks, Vozm, մա՛րա̈ք$^յ$ (máräkʻ$^y$) — Karabakh, մարագՙ (maragʻ) — Alashkert, Mush
** → Azerbaijani: mərək
** → Turkish: merek, marak, mereḫ, mırık
** Kurdish:
*** → Northern Kurdish: merek, mereg
** → Zazaki: merek, mereke, mereki
** → Georgian: მერეგი (meregi) (Imerkhevi dialect)
** → Mingrelian: მარაკა (maraḳa, “goat shed”) (perhaps)

### References

* ↑ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “մարագ”, 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 273–274
* ↑ J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “մարագ”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 515a
* ↑ Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 137

### Further reading

* Androniḳašvili, Mzia (1966) Narḳvevebi iranul-kartuli enobrivi urtiertobidan I [Studies in Iranian–Georgian Linguistic Contacts I] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Tbilisi University Press, page 249
* Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 106
* Ġazaryan, Ṙuben, Avetisyan, Henrik (2009) “մարագ”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press
* Ġazaryan, Ṙuben, Avetisyan, Henrik (2009) “մարաք”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press
* Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “մարագ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
* Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “մարագ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy