ճիտք

Armenian

FWOTD – 7 January 2020

Alternative forms

Etymology

ճիտ (čit) + (-kʿ)

Pronunciation

Noun

ճիտք (čitkʿ)

  1. cuff (of a sock)
  2. boot top, bootleg
    • 1921, Stepan Zoryan, Amiryani əntanikʿə [Amiryan’s Family] :
      Ու ահա հենց այն միջոցին, երբ Նվարդը նրա երկար խողովակի նմանող ճտքերով կոշիկները դրել էր Ամիրյանի առաջ՝ ներս մտավ հայրը՝ Գաբրիել Զալյանը։
      U aha hencʿ ayn miǰocʿin, erb Nvardə nra erkar xołovaki nmanoł čtkʿerov košiknerə drel ēr Amiryani aṙaǰ, ners mtav hayrə, Gabriel Zalyanə.
      And precisely at the moment when Nvard had placed in front of Amiryan his boots with long bootlegs, entered the father Gabriel Zalyan.

Declension

References

  • ճիտք”, in Žamanakakicʿ hayocʿ lezvi bacʿatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, 1969–1980
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1913), ճիտք”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žołovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 716a
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), ճիտ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 202a
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