պերկես

Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

A modern literary coinage based on Ancient Greek πέρκη (pérkē), genitive πέρκης (pérkēs). Probably coined by the Mekhitarists of Vienna.

Pronunciation

Noun

պերկես (perkes)

  1. perch (fish in the genus Perca)

Declension

Further reading

  • Koylawean (Goilaw), Awetikʿ (1884–1889), Hechtbarsch”, in Baṙagirkʿ germanerēn-hayerēn [Deutsch-armenisches Wörterbuch], Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 821a
  • Malxaseancʿ, Stepʿan (1945), պերկէս”, in Hayerēn bacʿatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, Yerevan: State Publishing House, page 94c
  • Mēnēvišean, Gabriēl (1897) Patkerazard bnakan patmutʿiwn, A. Kendanabanutʿiwn [Illustrated Natural History: 1. Zoology] (in Armenian), Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, pages 188–189
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