აბედი

Etymology
Klimov 1964 on the basis of, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , reconstructed , however the reconstruction is discarded in later works. Related to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. The direction of borrowing is uncertain.

Marr considers the Armenian to be borrowed from Georgian, deriving the Kartvelian forms from a root meaning “to burn”;, whence 🇨🇬, ,. J̌ahukyan accepts the Georgian borrowing of Armenian.

Ačaṙyan is skeptical and allows for the possibility that the borrowing was actually in the opposite direction, from into Kartvelian, but he does not give an etymology for the Armenian word.

Noun

 * 1) tinder, touchwood; amadou
 * 2) canker
 * 1) canker