կենճ

Armenian

Etymology

From Middle Armenian կէնճ (kēnč), from Ottoman Turkish گنج‎ (genc).

Adjective

կենճ • (kenč) (dialectal)

  1. young
    Synonym: երիտասարդ (eritasard)
    • ca. 1680–1684, Baṙ girg taliani [An Armenian–Italian Dictionary published in Venice] page 33:[1]
      կանճ․ ճօվէնէ
      kanč; čōvēnē
      կանճ (kanč) = giovane

Noun

կենճ • (kenč) (dialectal)

  1. young man, youth
    Synonym: երիտասարդ (eritasard)

Alternative forms

References
  1. Orengo, Alessandro (2019), “Il ԲԱՌ ԳԻՐԳ ՏԱԼԻԱՆԻ Un dizionario armeno-italiano del XVII secolo”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15), Leuven: Peeters, page 230

Further reading
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1902), “կէնճ”, 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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