# ռամ
## Armenian
### Alternative forms

* ըռէմ (əṙēm) — Constantinople

### Etymology

From Middle Armenian ռամ (ṙam). In some dialects probably borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish cognate: compare dialectal Turkish rem.

### Pronunciation

* (Eastern Armenian) IPA: /rɑm/, [rɑm]
* (Western Armenian) IPA: /ɾɑm/, [ɾɑm]

### Noun

ռամ • (ṙam) (dialectal)
* geomancy
** ca. 1680–1684, Baṙ girg taliani [An Armenian–Italian Dictionary published in Venice] page 53:ռամ․ քապօլայṙam; kʻapōlayռամ (ṙam) = *cabola [compare cabala]

#### Derived terms

* ռամհարություն (ṙamharutʻyun)

#### Related terms

* ռամալ (ṙamal)

### 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 241

### Further reading

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “ըռէմ”, in Tʻurkʻerēni azdecʻutʻiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʻurkʻerēnē pʻoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žoġovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʻeamb Vani, Ġarabaġi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 111
* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “ռամ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 139b
* Malxaseancʻ, Stepʻan (1945) “ռամ”, in Hayerēn bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, Yerevan: State Publishing House, page 156
* Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2008), “ռամ”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume V, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 226b

## Middle Armenian
### Alternative forms

* ըռամ (əṙam)

### Etymology

From Arabic رَمْل (raml).

### Noun

ռամ • (ṙam)
* geomancy

#### Derived terms

* ըռամախօս (əṙamaxōs)
* ըռամբզարկ (əṙambzark)
* ըռամգիրք (əṙamgirkʻ)
* ըռըմբզարկ (əṙəmbzark)
* ըռմբզարկ (əṙmbzark)
* ռամզարկ (ṙamzark)
* ռամզարկութիւն (ṙamzarkutʻiwn)
* ռամտես (ṙamtes)

#### Related terms

* ռամալ (ṙamal)

#### Descendants

* Armenian: ռամ (ṙam)

### Further reading

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “ռամ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 139b
* Ġazaryan, Ṙuben, Avetisyan, Henrik (2009) “ըռամ”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 223b
* Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi (2000) “ռամ”, 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 669