քիփ

Armenian

Etymology

From dialectal Turkish kip and Azerbaijani kip (tight). Doublet of կիպ (kip).

Pronunciation

Adjective

քիփ (kʿipʿ) (superlative ամենաքիփ) (dialectal, colloquial)

  1. tight, compact
  2. close, intimate
    իրար հետ քիփ ենքirar het kʿipʿ enkʿwe're close to each other

Declension

Adverb

քիփ (kʿipʿ)

  1. tightly, compactly

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1913), քիփ”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žołovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 1116a
  • Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 217
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