գան

Old Armenian

noun
Definitions
  • beating, bastinado, battery, blows with a stick, whip, lash, whipping
  • scourge, chastisement, punishment
  • wound

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰn̥-(n)i-, *gʷʰen- (kill, strike, slay, beat, hit, drive).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*gʷʰen-

Gloss

kill, strike, slay, beat, hit, drive

Concept
Semantic Field

The body

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

殺

Emoji

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