մող

The origin is unknown.

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [moʁ]
• (Western Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [moʁ]

մող • (moġ)

1. (dialectal, Mush, Kharberd) a kind of fish in the river Euphrates

Ačaṙean equates the species with Turkish mersin balığı (“sturgeon”).

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1913), “մող”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 792a
• Malxaseancʿ, Stepʿan (1944), “մող”, in Hayerēn bacʿatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume III, Yerevan: State Publishing House, page 356b
• Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2007), “մող¹”, in Hayocʿ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume IV, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 75a

According to J̌ahukyan, from Proto-Indo-European *mol-, an ablaut grade of *mel-, on which see մեղ (meł).

մող • (moł)

1. crooked, twisted, bent

• ծուռ (cuṙ)

• աղամող (ałamoł) (possibly)

• Armenian: մող (moġ)

• Awgerean, Mkrtičʿ; Čēlalean, Grigor (1865), “մող”, in Aṙjeṙn baṙaran haykaznean lezui [Pocket Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), “մող”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 342
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1963), “Stugabanutʿyunner [Etymologies]”, in Patma-banasirakan handes [Historical-Philological Journal]‎ (in Armenian), issue 4, Yerevan: Academy Press, page 87
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010), “մող”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 533a