# մառախուղ
## Armenian
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian մառախուղ (maṙaxuł).

### Pronunciation

* (Eastern Armenian) IPA: /mɑrɑˈχuʁ/, [mɑrɑχúʁ]
* (Western Armenian) IPA: /mɑɾɑˈχuʁ/, [mɑɾɑχúʁ]
* Audio (Eastern Armenian):(file)

### Noun

մառախուղ • (maṙaxuġ)
* fog, mist

#### Synonyms

* մեգ (meg), մշուշ (mšuš)

## Old Armenian
### Etymology

Uncertain. Often assumed to be an inner-Armenian formation *մառ (*maṙ) +‎ -ա- (-a-) +‎ *խուղ (*xuł), the first part being related to Old Armenian մայր (mayr), մառն (maṙn) and մռայլ (mṙayl), and inherited from Proto-Indo-European, and the second part being somehow related to Old Armenian խուղ (xuł, “hut, hovel”). More promising is Marr's comparison with Georgian მარახული (maraxuli), which has been connected with Proto-Nakh *maaraʁo (“cloud”) (see these). We may be dealing with a word of ultimate Northeast Caucasian origin, borrowed via Old Georgian.

### Noun

մառախուղ • (maṙaxuł)
* fog, mist

#### Alternative forms

* մարախուղ (maraxuł) — misspelling

#### Derived terms

* անմառախուղ (anmaṙaxuł)
* մառախլադատ (maṙaxladat)
* մառախլաձեւ (maṙaxlajew)
* մառախլամած (maṙaxlamac)
* մառախլամուտ (maṙaxlamut)
* մառախլապատ (maṙaxlapat)
* մառախլիմ (maṙaxlim)
* մառախլուտ (maṙaxlut)
* մառախղամութ (maṙaxłamutʻ)
* մառախղին (maṙaxłin)
* մառախղուտ (maṙaxłut)

#### Descendants

* → Armenian: մառախուղ (maṙaxuġ) (learned)

### References

* ↑ Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 944
* ↑ Petersson, Herbert (1916) Baltisches und Slavisches (Lunds Universitets Årsskrift N.F. Avd. 1, Bd. 12. Nr. 2) (in German), Lund and Leipzig, pages 40–41
* ↑ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “մառախուղ”, 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 262ab
* ↑ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 734
* ↑ Džaukjan, G. B. (1967) Очерки по истории дописьменного периода армянского языка [An Outline of the History of the Pre-Literary Period of the Armenian Language]‎ (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 119
* ↑ J̌ahukean, Geworg (1987) “Stugabanutʻiwnner [Etymologies]”, in Handes Amsorya‎‎ (in Armenian), pages 618–619
* ↑ J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “խուղ II”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 347
* ↑ Belardi, Walter (2009) Elementi di armeno aureo (Biblioteca di ricerche linguistiche e filologiche; 57.3) (in Italian), volume III, Rome: Il Calamo, page 118
* ↑ Č̣q̇onia, Ilia (1910) “მარახული”, in Siṭq̇vis-ḳona. Saba-sulxan orbelianis da davit čubinašvilis leksiḳonebši gamoṭovebuli siṭq̇vebi / Грузинский Глоссарий. Слова не вошедшие в словари Савы-Сулхана Орбелиани и Давида Чубинова (Материалы по яфетическому языкознанию; 1)‎, with etymologies added by N. Marr, Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 31

### Further reading

* Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “մառախուղ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
* Gippert, Jost (2005) “Armeno-Albanica”, in Günter Schweiger, editor, Indogermanica: Festschrift Gert Klingenschmitt (Studien zur Iranistik und Indogermanistik; 3)‎, Taimering: Schweiger VWT-Verlag, page 159, footnote 22