չիչխան

Unattested in Old or Middle Armenian. Originally a word of the Mush dialect area, that has now become widespread.

Borrowed from dialectal Turkish çişkan, çıçırgan (“sea buckthorn”), ultimately of Mongolic origin.

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

չիչխան • (čʿičʿxan) (Bulanık, Muş, Alashkert)

1. sea buckthorn, sandthorn (shrub of the genus Hippophae, especially Hippophae rhamnoides)

   Synonyms: լափռի (lapʿṙi), (non-standard) աբլեպիխա (ablepixa)

   • 1847, Arsēn Bagratuni, Pobliosi Virgileay Marovni Mšakakankʿ [A translation of Virgil’s Georgics] II.416:[1]

     Հատանին եւ չիչխանի դաժանաբոյս ոզորք յանտառս

     Hatanin ew čʿičʿxani dažanaboys ozorkʿ yantaṙs

     Also rough shoots of broom must be cut, in the woods

• Has been alternatively and incorrectly identified with the holly.

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1913), “չիչխան”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žołovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 880a, glossing with French houx, Turkish dikenli defne
• Ališan, Łewond (1895), “չիչխան”, in Haybusak kam haykakan busabaṙutʿiwn [Armenian Botany] (in Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, § 2466, page 518
• Amatuni, Sahak (1912), “չիչխան”, in Hayocʿ baṙ u ban [Armenian Words and Idioms] (in Armenian), Vagharshapat: Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, page 541a
• Ayvazyan H. M. et al., editors (2006), “չիչխան”, in Hayastani bnašxarh [Nature of Armenia] (Əntanekan hanragitaran matenašar; 3) (in Armenian), Yerevan: Armenian Encyclopaedia, page 310bc
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1837), “չիչխան”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui. Yaweluac ašxarhik baṙkʿ anvkaykʿ i grocʿ aṙ mez ełelocʿ [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language. Appendix of Dialectal Words] (in Old Armenian), volume II, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 1065c
• Bănățeanu, Vlad (1961), “Observații în legătură cu termenii pentru arbuști în limba armeană [Notes on Armenian shrub terminology]”, in Studii și cercetări lingvistice‎ (in Romanian), volume 12, issue 4, page 517 of 515–540, suspecting a subtrate origin
• Bedevian, Armenag K. (1936), “Ilex aquifolium”, in Illustrated Polyglottic Dictionary of Plant Names, Cairo: Argus & Papazian Presses, § 1904, pages 328–329
• Caturyan, Tʿ. G. (1970), “Hippophae”, in Astvacatryan Z. A., editor, Buyseri anunneri latineren-hayeren-ṙuseren baṙaran [Latin–Armenian–Russian Dictionary of Plant Names], 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, § 622, page 65
• Łazaryan, Ṙ. S. (1981), “չիչխան դժնիկանման”, in Busanunneri hayeren-latineren-ṙuseren-angleren-franseren-germaneren baṙaran [Armenian–Latin–Russian–English–French–German Dictionary of Plant Names], Yerevan: University Press, § 969, page 78a
• Malxaseancʿ, Stepʿan (1945), “չիչխան”, in Hayerēn bacʿatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, Yerevan: State Publishing House, page 23b
• Norayr N. Biwzandacʿi (1884), “houx”, in Baṙagirkʿ i gałłierēn lezuē i hayerēn [Dictionary from the French Language into Armenian], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian Press, page 650a
• Sargsyan, Armen Yu. (2013), “չիչխան”, in Łarabałi barbaṙi baṙaran [Dictionary of Karabakh Dialect] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Edit Print, →ISBN, page 597a
• Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2007), “չիչխան”, in Hayocʿ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume IV, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 411b