թուխ

From Old Armenian թուխ (tʿux).

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [tʰuχ]
• (Western Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [tʰuχ]

թուխ • (tʿux) (superlative ամենաթուխ)

1. swarthy, dark-skinned

The origin is uncertain.[1][2] Perhaps from an enlargement of Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”), and cognate with Proto-West Germanic *þiustrī (“dark”), Old Norse þoka (“fog, mist”), Old English geþuxian (“to grow dark”).[3][4][5]

թուխ • (tʿux)

1. brown, tawny, swarthy, dark

   թուխ/թուխս զգենուլ, ի թուխս համակիլ ― tʿux/tʿuxs zgenul, i tʿuxs hamakil ― to wear mourning, to dress in mourning, to put on mourning; to be in mourning, to go into mourning; to be plunged in grief

   թուխ զգեցուցանել, ի թուխս համակել ― tʿux zgecʿucʿanel, i tʿuxs hamakel ― to clothe in mourning, to dress in black, to put into mourning; to throw into mourning, to plunge in grief

   ի թուխս համակեալ ― i tʿuxs hamakeal ― in deep mourning

• թուղ (tʿuł)

• Armenian: թուխ (tʿux)

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “թուխ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “թուխ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy

The origin is uncertain. Perhaps inherited from the zero-grade of Proto-Indo-European *tewk-.

թուխ • (tʿux)

1. (of birds) the act if sitting on eggs, brooding, hatching
   • 5th century, with changes and additions in later centuries, Baroyaxōs [Physiologus] Earliest recension (TR).21.3:[1]

     Քանզի զաւտարին ձուս գողանայ եւ յիւր բունն տանի․ եւ մինչ չկարէ հանդարտել թխոյն վասն բազում ձագուցն, երթայ կուտէ խռիւ ինչ եւ թոյլ տայ, որ ցամաքի․ եւ այնպէս խռուովն հանդերձ թխէ։

     Kʿanzi zawtarin jus gołanay ew yiwr bunn tani; ew minčʿ čʿkarē handartel tʿxoyn vasn bazum jagucʿn, ertʿay kutē xṙiw inčʿ ew tʿoyl tay, or cʿamakʿi; ew aynpēs xṙuovn handerj tʿxē.

     • Translation by Gohar Muradyan

       For it steals the eggs of the others and takes them to its nest; and until it cannot rest sitting on eggs because of many nestlings, it goes, heaps some brushwood and lets it dry up, and thus sits on eggs with the brushwood.

   ի թուխս նստել ― i tʿuxs nstel ― to brood

• թխեմ (tʿxem)

• Armenian: թուխս (tʿuxs)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973), “թուխ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume II, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, pages 203–204
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “թուխ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010), “թուխ II”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 274a
• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “թուխ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy