գռեհիկ

Armenian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian գռեհիկ (gṙehik).

Pronunciation

Adjective

գռեհիկ (gṙehik) (superlative ամենագռեհիկ)

  1. coarse, rough, rude, impolite
  2. unrefined, obnoxious, intolerable
  3. vulgar, crude, primitive

Declension

Adverb

գռեհիկ (gṙehik)

  1. coarsely, roughly, rudely, impolitely
  2. unrefinedly, obnoxiously, intolerably
  3. vulgarly, crudely, primitively

Derived terms

  • գռեհկաբան (gṙehkaban)
  • գռեհկաբանություն (gṙehkabanutʿyun)
  • գռեհկաբար (gṙehkabar)
  • գռեհկաբարո (gṙehkabaro)
  • գռեհկական (gṙehkakan)
  • գռեհկականություն (gṙehkakanutʿyun)
  • գռեհկամիտ (gṙehkamit)
  • գռեհկանալ (gṙehkanal)
  • գռեհկացնել (gṙehkacʿnel)
  • գռեհկացվել (gṙehkacʿvel)
  • գռեհկացում (gṙehkacʿum)
  • գռեհկորեն (gṙehkoren)
  • գռեհկություն (gṙehkutʿyun)

Old Armenian

Etymology

From գռեհ (gṙeh, street, common road) + -իկ (-ik), which is of the same Iranian origin as գրոհ (groh, mob) and Old Georgian გლეხი (glexi, peasant).

Noun

գռեհիկ (gṙehik)

  1. commoner, pleb, layman

Declension

Adjective

գռեհիկ (gṙehik)

  1. vulgar, plebeian, common

Descendants

  • Armenian: գռեհիկ (gṙehik) (learned)

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), գռեհ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), գռեհիկ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 456
  • Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), գռեհիկ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
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