ճիզվիտ

Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish جیزویت (cizvit) (Turkish cizvit), from Italian gesuita.

Pronunciation

Noun

ճիզվիտ (čizvit)

  1. (Catholicism) Jesuit
  2. (figuratively) cunning and untrustworthy person

Declension

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1902), ճիզվիթ”, 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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