թզկերուկ

Middle Armenian

Etymology

From թուզ (tʿuz, “fig”) +‎ ուտել (utel, “to eat”) +‎ -ուկ (-uk).

Noun

թզկերուկ • (tʿzkeruk) (hapax)

  1. a kind of bird that feeds on figs
    • 13–14th centuries, Kirakos Episkopos, Govkʿ Tʿṙčʿnocʿ [Praise of Birds] A version found only as a quotation in the unpublished Armenian–Latin dictionary of Stefanus Roszka completed 1731:[1]
      Թըզկերուկ հաւ մի կայ,
      Որ միշտ թըզով նա գիրանայ
      Tʿəzkeruk haw mi kay,
      Or mišt tʿəzov na giranay
      There is the bird tʿəzkeruk,
      That grows fat on figs

Usage notes

The species is unknown. Has been glossed with Ottoman Turkish انجیر قوشی‎ (incir kuşu),[2] Italian beccafico,[3] English figpecker,[4] French becfigue,[5][6] German Feigendrossel,[7] based solely on the fig-eating. Typologically compare also Georgian მოლაღური (molaɣuri).

References
  1. Norayr N. Biwzandacʿi (2000), “թզկերուկ”, in Martiros Minassian, editor, Baṙagirkʿ storin hayerēni i matenagrutʿeancʿ ŽA–ŽĒ darucʿ [Dictionary of Middle Armenian Based on the Literature of 11–17th Centuries], edited from the author's unfinished manuscript written 1884–1915, Geneva: Martiros Minassian, page 227
  2. Pōzačean, Yakovbos (1841), “ինճիր գուշու”, in Hamaṙōt baṙaran i tačkakanē i hay [Concise Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 317b
  3. Čamčean, Pʿilippos (1846), “beccafico”, in Nor barbaṙaran yitałakanē i gałiarēn, i hay ew i tačik [Nuovo dizionario italiano-francese-armeno-turco], Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 116a
  4. Awgerean, Yarutʿiwn (1868), “figpecker”, in Baṙaran Angłiarēn ew Hayerēn [A Dictionary English and Armenian], with the assistance of John Brand Esqre. A. M., 2nd edition, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 298b
  5. Norayr N. Biwzandacʿi (1884), “becfigue”, in Baṙagirkʿ i gałłierēn lezuē i hayerēn [Dictionary from the French Language into Armenian], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian Press, page 140b
  6. Kʿaǰuni, Manuēl (1891), “bec-figue”, in Baṙgirkʿ aruesticʿ ew gitutʿeancʿ ew gełecʿik dprutʿeancʿ [Dictionary of Arts and Sciences and Belles Lettres] (in Old Armenian and French), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 257a
  7. Koylawean (Goilaw), Awetikʿ (1884–1889), “Feigendrossel”, in Baṙagirkʿ germanerēn-hayerēn [Deutsch-armenisches Wörterbuch], Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 601a

Further reading
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973), “թուզ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume II, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 201–202
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