պատմեմ

Etymology
Borrowed from a cognate of 🇨🇬. See it for more.

There has been some scepticism about this etymology due to the combining form and the difference in meaning,  but the combining form can be explained as a back-formation from, and the sense development can be explained as "to measure words, to weigh one's words" → "to speak in a measured, controlled or truthful way". The same sense development is seen in the Tajik cognate.

Verb

 * 1)  to relate, tell, narrate, recount

Usage notes
Has the combining form.