կրակ

From Old Armenian կրակ (krak).

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• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /kəˈɾɑk/, [kəɾɑ́k]
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /ɡəˈɾɑɡ/, [ɡəɾɑ́ɡ]

կրակ • (krak)

1. fire
2. (figuratively) light, lamp
3. (figuratively) fever
4. (figuratively) heat
5. (figuratively) fervour
6. shooting, firing

• (fire): հուր (hur)

• կրակել (krakel)
• կրակվառիչ (krakvaṙičʻ)
• կրակահերթ (krakahertʻ)

An Iranian borrowing. Compare Middle Persian 𐫞𐫇𐫡𐫃 (qwrg /⁠kūrag⁠/, “furnace, kiln”), Persian کوره (kure, “furnace”) and Georgian კერა (ḳera), კერაკი (ḳeraḳi), კერაკანი (ḳeraḳani), also from Iranian.

կրակ • (krak)

1. fire, flames

   կրակ լուցանել, վառել ― krak lucʻanel, vaṙel ― to kindle, to light, to make a fire

   արծարծել զկրակ ― arcarcel zkrak ― to stir, to poke the fire

   շիջուցանել զկրակ ― šiǰucʻanel zkrak ― to put out, to extinguish, to quench the fire

2. (figuratively) fire, heat, flame, spirit, ardour

• Armenian: կրակ (krak)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “կրակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “կրակ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 378
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “կրակ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy