բայղուշ

Armenian

FWOTD – 18 October 2019

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Armenian պայղուշ (payłuš), from Ottoman Turkish بایقوش (baykuš).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

բայղուշ (bayłuš)

  1. (dialectal) owl
    Synonym: բու (bu)
  2. (dialectal) foreteller of misfortune
    Synonym: չարագուշակ (čʿaragušak)

Declension

Derived terms

  • բայղուշություն (bayłušutʿyun)

Adjective

բայղուշ (bayłuš) (superlative ամենաբայղուշ)

  1. ominous, ill-boding, sinister

Declension

References

  1. Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1902), պայխուշ”, in Tʿurkʿerēni azdecʿutʿiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʿurkʿerēnē pʿoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žołovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʿeamb Vani, Łarabałi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žołovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages
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