բոխի

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• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [bɔˈχi]
• (Western Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [pʰɔˈχi]
• Hyphenation: բո‧խի

From Middle Armenian բոխի (boxi), բոխ (box), from Old Armenian բող (boł, “*sprout, plant; a kind of plant”), with the botanical suffix -ի (-i).

• բոխ (box), բող (boł), բողի (bołi), բողիկ (bołik), պեքի (pekʿi)
• պէք^յի (pēkʿ^yi), պո̈ւ՛ք^յի (pǘkʿ^yi) – Karabakh, dialectological notation

բոխի • (boxi)

1. (dialectal) a kind of bitter field-plant, probably horse fennel, Hippomarathrum or a kind of fennel or wild parsley (in different dialects may refer to different plants)

   Synonyms: ժախ (žax), բոժախ (božax), ձիասամիթ (jiasamitʿ)

• The stems are turned into a pickle, commonly used as an appetizer. See a photograph of the product.
• According to Ačaṙyan, corresponds to Turkish çaşur. The latter is a dialectal form of çakşır (“Ferula”).

• բոժախ (božax)
• բոխիճ (boxič)

• → Northern Kurdish: box, boxe (“Ferula”)
• → Zazaki: boğîk

• Բոխի (ժախ) on the Armenian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^hy
• Amatuni, Sahak (1912), “բոխի”, in Hayocʿ baṙ u ban [Armenian Words and Idioms] (in Armenian), Vagharshapat: Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, page 112a
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971), “բոխի”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume I, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 464b
• Асатрян, Г. (1987), “Язык заза и армянский (Предварительные заметки) [Zaza and Armenian (Preliminary Notes)]”, in Patma-banasirakan handes [Historical-Philological Journal]‎ (in Russian), issue 1, Yerevan: Academy Press, page 162
• Łazaryan, Ṙ. S. (1981), “բոխի”, in Busanunneri hayeren-latineren-ṙuseren-angleren-franseren-germaneren baṙaran [Armenian–Latin–Russian–English–French–German Dictionary of Plant Names], Yerevan: University Press, § 161, page 17b
• Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2001), “բոխի¹”, in Hayocʿ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: Hayastan, pages 206—207
• Sargsyan, Armen Yu. (2013), “պէքի”, in Łarabałi barbaṙi baṙaran [Dictionary of Karabakh Dialect] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Edit Print, →ISBN, page 611b

Carpinus betulus range

Carpinus orientalis range

A dialectal word which has been adopted in the literary language as the standard designation for "hornbeam". Unattested in Old or Middle Armenian. Confined to northern, northeastern and eastern peripheral dialects, which corresponds to the geographical range of the hornbeam (see the maps). Note that the by-form *բուքի (*bukʿi) reconstructed by Martirosyan on the basis of rural Karabakh պո̈ւ՛քի (pǘkʿi) found in Ačaṙean 1913 is misguided; the latter does not mean "hornbeam" but is rather a by-form of բոխի (boxi, “horse fennel”)[1][2].

Attempts to derive from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos (“beech”) are unconvincing, because the expected form is **բած (**bac).

Probably from Old Armenian բող (boł, “*sprout, plant; a kind of plant”) with the botanical suffix -ի (-i), and therefore etymologically identical with homonymous բոխի (boxi, “horse fennel”). Note especially Moks dialect պօ̈ղ (pöł) glossed as "hornbeam" in Orbeli 2002,[3] if the gloss is not a result of confusion. Note also Karabakh dialect բոխ (box, “tree shoot with buds used as animal feed”),[4] in dialectological notation պօ̈խ (pöx),[5] from the same source. The "hornbeam" may have been viewed as a "source of twigs or tree shoots". Aliroev relates that Chechens made arrows from light and firm young shoots of the hornbeam, hence the name of the arrow in Chechen is identical with that of "hornbeam" — пха (pxa); Chechens also make baskets and wattling out of hornbeam twigs.[6] Ossetian фатхъӕд (fatqæd, “hornbeam”) literally means "arrow-wood" for the same reason.[7] Compare also Proto-Kartvelian *cxeml- (“hornbeam”) ~ *cxaml- (“twig; arrow, needle”). Hornbeam produces shoots abundantly; the shoots and leaves are used as animal fodder.[8]

• պէխէ (pēxē), պէխի (pēxi), պօ̈խէ (pöxē), պօ̈խի (pöxi) – Karabakh, dialectological notation
• բեխի (bexi), պեխի (pexi) – dialectal, normalized notation

բոխի • (boxi)

1. hornbeam (tree)

   Synonym: (Hamshen) մանի (mani)

• բոխատերեւ (boxaterew)

• բոխի on the Armenian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^hy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1913), “բոխի”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žołovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 200a
• Amatuni, Sahak (1912), “բոխի”, in Hayocʿ baṙ u ban [Armenian Words and Idioms] (in Armenian), Vagharshapat: Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, page 112a
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1972) Hay barbaṙagitutʿyan neracutʿyun [Introduction into Armenian Dialectology]‎ (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 317
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 179
• Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2001), “բոխի²”, in Hayocʿ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 207a
• Sargsyan, Armen Yu. (2013), “պէխէ”, in Łarabałi barbaṙi baṙaran [Dictionary of Karabakh Dialect] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Edit Print, →ISBN, page 611b